St. Mary the Virgin, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
Description
The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a spacious edifice of stone; the lower part of the tower is Decorated, but the two upper stages, and the greater part of the church is in the Perpendicular style: it consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of six bays, aisles, south porch, above which is a priest's chamber, and massive western tower with panelled and embattled parapet and crocketed pinnacles, and containing a clock and 8 bells, recast in 1902, and carillon chimes: on the north side of the church is an ancient chapel of St. Katharine: the stained east window is a memorial to the Cooper family, and there are other memorial windows to Anthony Adey, Col. John Blagdon Hale, of Bradley Court, Major-General Ramsay, the Tait family, Jane Fisher and Alice Stuart Beal, a monumental slab to Richard-de-Wotton, rector, 1320, and a fine tomb of Purbeck marble, with two brasses to Thomas, 5th Baron Berkeley, d. 1417, and Margaret (lady de L'Isle), his wife, d. 1392. The organ, originally presented to the church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, by George I. in 1726, was purchased by Dr. Tattersall in 1800, and re-erected here.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1571.