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St Mary

St Mary

Burton

Wiltshire

Anglican parish church, C13, C14 and C15, ashlar and rubble stone with stone tiled roofs and coped gables

Architectural Features

Fine C15 tower similar to those at Yatton Keynell and West Kington

C15 4-light west window with hood

Nave has C15 east end Sanctus- bell turret and south side mostly C15 with a 3-light Perpendicular flat-headed window with hood each side of gabled south porch with moulded archway and plank door

South transept apparently C15 with stepped buttress in line with south gable and 3-light pointed C15 south window with hood

Chancel mostly C15 with heavy high plinth moulding

3-light and 2-light flat-headed south windows with hoods and pointed C15 3-light east window with hood

North east chapel has similar high plinth moulding around north east angle but east window is C14 3-light with cusped reticulated tracery

North C15 3-light flat-headed window with hood and priests door to west, low moulded arched doorway with framed plank door and sloping stone hood on brackets over

North aisle probably C13 much altered in c15, continuous roof with north east chapel

C15 3-light flat-headed window with hood and large carved head stops

trefoil-head C13 single light

fine C15 porch and another C15 flat-headed 3-light window with carved heads to hood

Porch has high heavy moulded plinth, stepped angle and side buttresses, string course and moulded parapet course with 2 carved gargoyles beneath each side

Porch has tierceron-star vault on carved head corner corbels and with carved bosses

Gabled west end of aisle has pointed C15 3-light window with hood

Interior: Moulded shafted C15 tower arch

Nave with C15 plastered wagon roof in 10 bays with moulded ribs rising from carved corbel heads

Divided into panels by moulded ridge and horizontal member each side with carved bosses at intersections

Stair through wall at west side of transept to fine C15 stone pulpit with canted panelled front

5-bay north arcade apparently C13 with double chamfer arches with hoods and carved head stops

Carved capitals of late Norman or Transitional form

some with scallop carving

Fine Norman circular font fluted below, scales above and upper zigzag band

4 bay C15 roof, restored, plastered wagon roof with moulded ribs

Furnishings: early C18 altar rails, late C19 reredos with terracotta Last Supper panel by G. Tinworth of Doulton's. 2 early to mid C18 wall monuments on chancel north wall and one of c1714 on south side

2 late C17 brasses by pulpit

Much C19 stained glass

c1874 north east window and much pictorial glass of c1890 signed E. Suffling in east