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The West End

The western end of the nave is dominated by through the many generations leads to Jesus,
the Late Perpendicular window which dates portrayed as an Infant in the arms of the
from 1535 when the nave was rebuilt. Windows Blessed Virgin Mary (St Matthew 1:6-17).
on either side are from the same period. The font dates from the fourteenth century
The window was rebuilt in 1879 when a western although the stonework was dressed in late
gallery, only installed in 1842, was removed. Victorian times. The large lead-lined bowl
Stained glass in all the west windows is by testifies to the medieval practice of dipping the
Charles Kempe. The Tree of Jesse in the great child in the water. Baptisms have taken place
west window is exceptionally fine and dates here for nearly seven hundred years.
from 1879. From Jesse springs the stem which