Church of St Mary the Virgin

A Grade I Listed Building in Berkeley, Gloucestershire

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Berkeley - St Mary the Virgin
Berkeley Church Tower
St Mary: church with c12 origins set on high ground overlooking the castle
St Mary: north porch built c.1400; upper storey added c.1450 with Perpendicular window tracery; c13 Early English aisle windows of three stepped lights with cinquefoil heads
St Mary: west end of the church with the c18 detached tower on the left; c13 lancet west window
St Mary: view of the east end from the castle grounds; Perpendicular east window of nine lights; Berkeley burial chapel, c.1450 to its left
St Mary: c.14 north door with bullet mark from the Civil War Parliamentarian siege of September 1645
St Mary: c.1250 nave & arcades looking east towards screen; south aisle added c.1320, north aisle added c.1380
St Mary: mid c15 Perpendicular stone rood screen; two-fourcentred outer arches & higher two-centred arch for the doorway
St Mary: monument to Thomas Berkeley, third Lord, d.1361, & wife Katherine Clivedon, d.1385, resting on tomb chest with embattled edge & heraldic panels
St Mary: Thomas Berkeley, third Lord, d.1361; lord of Berkeley when Edward II was probably murdered at the castle in 1327; fought with his brother Maurice at Crecy, 1346
St Mary: Katherine Clivedon of Charfield, d.1385, wife of Thomas Berkeley, third Lord; founder of grammar school at Wotton-under-Edge in 1384
St Mary: Berkeley arms from the monument to Thomas Berkeley, 3rd Lord, d.1361
St Mary: James Berkeley, first Lord (new creation), d.1463; recumbent effigy; armoured figure with Yorkist collar of suns & roses
St Mary: James Berkeley, son of first Lord; similar effigy to his father; killed in France, 1452, serving under John Talbot
St Mary: Henry Berkeley, seventh Lord, d.1613, & wife Katherine, daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
St Mary: brass to William Freme, d.1526, feodary of the Berkeley estates; holding heart