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Porton

Wiltshire

C12, C13, C14 and C15, restored 1866-7 by J.L. Pearson

Architectural Features

C13 chancel has north door and lancets, three close spaced lancets at east end

Nave and aisles have ashlar parapets with cavetto string at base, interrupted by carved stone hopper heads

Tower C12 with pilaster buttresses and without offsets, the upper section rebuilt in C19 with three simple bell openings each side and a shingled pyramidal spire

Nave C13 replacing a presumed C12 unaisled nave

High door to rood screen on south side

Roof of 3 bays, C15, with moulded and traceried brackets on large carved corbels, tie beams and moulded ridge piece, purlins and intermediate principal rafters

North aisle has piscina and similar C15 roof, also on fine corbels, all relating to widening of aisles and raising of nave in a major building phase

Fittings: Pulpit

with ballflower cornice and carved panels

Font, medieval, a Purbeck limestone octagonal bowl raised on step with stand for officiant

Altar rail, mahogany on iron supports, reading desk and pews all C19, the pews with simple iron candlestick with brass ornament

Monuments: Chancel: North side, a Carrara tablet with cornice shaped top, and curved apron, to Rev John Bowle, died 1788

In north aisle, 4 wall monuments, at east end, a slate tablet in limestone architrave with broken pediment clasping mantled arms

In south aisle, west wall, a C17 monument, a niche flanked by red marbled columns carrying entablature crowned by mantled and crested arms

Within the niche, a cloaked figure of Giles Rowbach, died 1633, kneeling before an open book on a stand. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, Wiltshire, Church guide 1985).

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