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All Saints

All Saints

Sutton Benger

Wiltshire

C12 origins

Architectural Features

C14 and C15

C15 west tower has pointed west door, renewed 3-light west window, canopied niche over, diagonal buttresses, moulded dripcourses, flat-headed 2-light bell openings with pierced stone panels, panelled embattled parapet with corner pinnacles and centre bell-spirelet, openwork with crockets

Nave has ashlar 3-window C15 north wall with buttresses, moulded plinth and large Perpendicular flat-headed 3-light windows, possibly originally a north aisle

South aisle has remarkable C14 Decorated detail

Very large pig gargoyle to right, between nave and aisle roofs

Moulded tower arch, 1851 five-bay arcade of circular piers and 2-step pointed arches, the west arch springing from green-man carved corbel, of remarkable size and quality, possibly C19 but said to be original

Aisle has circular scalloped Norman font and fine canopied niche with buttress shafts in middle light of east window

Stained glass: deep coloured 1851 east window, pictorial style, one chancel south window of 1862

Nave north windows with, from east, patterned quarries of c1860, good C14 style glass of c1862 and good deep coloured window of 1864 signed Charles Gibbs

Nave east roundel has glass of c1860.