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Stone church tower with a spire and arched windows, seen from a low angle against a clear blue sky, with gravestones nearby.

St Mary Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

St Mary, Fen Drayton

History of St Mary, Fen Drayton

Listed building on Heritage at Risk Register

Late C13 West wall of nave and lower courses of chancel and possibly the lower stage of the tower. Tower rebuilt c.1330; chancel, nave and south aisle C15. Roofs replaced in restoration of 1855.

Exterior view of a flint and stone church wall with three gothic windows and stone buttresses, above a grassy graveyard.

St Mary Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

Interior of a church chancel with wooden pews, a blue-curtained altar, and a large central stained-glass window.

St Mary Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

A patch of dark green lichen or damp staining spreads across a pale, textured stone wall beside a leaded lattice window.

St Mary Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

Two figures stand on scaffolding beneath a stone archway in a church interior, with two hanging circular light fixtures nearby.

St Mary Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

A laminated information poster about St Mary’s Church in Fen Drayton featuring a photograph of the building with text labels.

St Mary Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

A dark stone wall plaque shows two kneeling figures facing a central cross with Latin inscriptions beneath on a cream wall.

St Mary Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

A carved stone corbel in the shape of a grotesque, bearded face with wide eyes and a protruding tongue supporting a beam.

St Mary Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

A stone corbel carved in the shape of a bearded man's head wearing a simple cap, positioned beneath a dark wooden ceiling beam.

St Mary Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

A weathered stone corbel carved into the shape of a human face with wavy hair, set into the corner of a wall.

St Mary Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

A carved stone corbel in the shape of a grimacing, bearded face with bared teeth and a protruding tongue on a church wall.

St Mary Fen Drayton (RGL2026)

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