St. Mary the Virgin, Orton Waterville, Huntingdonshire
Description
The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a building of stone and rubble, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with crocketed pinnacles containing 4 bells: the edifice is chiefly in the Early Decorated style, the arches and much of the window tracery being especially fine: the chancel is largely debased, but it has a fine low side window, and near it a semicircular recess with stone seat: the porch and lower stages of the tower, which is very massive, are Early English, the upper stage Perpendicular: at the east end of each aisle is a piscina and brackets: the beams of the nave roof bear the dates 1753 and 1832: the font consists of an octagonal basin on a cluster of five shafts and the pulpit is a magnificent piece of oak carving of the 16th century in the Renaissance style, with richly wrought panels, exhibiting figures and foliage in high relief: in the north aisle is a brass inscribed to John de Herlyngton, ob. 1408: there are 230 sittings.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1538.