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The Holy Cross

Ashton Keynes

Wiltshire

C12, C13, C14, C15 and 1876-7 by William Butterfield

Architectural Features

Nave of later C12 with aisles and chancel

Aisles remodelled C14 with C15 alterations

C14 west tower

North and south porches of C15, gabled with hollow chamfered arches and hoodmould, and brattished plates and panelled wood vault with moulded ribs

C15 square headed south door

Aisles with 2-light quatrefoil headed windows, but east window on south side C15 or C16 restored C19

Chancel C12 north wall pierced with early C13 arches

now enclosed in early C13 chapel with trefoiled triple lancets and priest's door

North arcade in 2 sections, 2 arches to east probably late C12 on octagonal column and leaf capitals

South arcade early C13, hollow chamfered arches on round columns and abaci

Roof C15, of 5½ bays with moulded and painted ties and trussed collar rafters

Chancel arch late C12 rebuilt wider 1876-7, two orders of chevrons on slender responds with shafts and water holding bases

Fittings: Tub font

C12 with chevron and upturned palmette decoration

Oak pulpit also C19

Monuments: North Aisle: Over east wall

probably C14 reredos reset

central vesica with flanking gabled niches and brackets for figures

Relief figures in spandrels

At west end of aisle, dismembered fragments of a C17 monument with crest, arms, cherubs etc

Glass: Some C15 or C16 pieces in head of south aisle eastern window

Brass, in chancel, 1658 to 3 generations called HENRY HAWKINS. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, Wiltshire

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