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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Shrewton

Wiltshire

Late C12 to early C13 nave

Architectural Features

C16 tower

3-light east window with C19 flowing tracery with carved head terminals to hoodmould

one has its original C13 head

one 3-light Perpendicular window, bell stage has pair of 2-light C16 square- headed louvres to north, south and west faces, string course to battlemented parapet, stair turret on north side of tower has two loops

cylindrical columns with scalloped capitals, some are very convincingly restored by Wyatt, but the west respond of south aisle is original, north aisle has one square pier with square west respond, with zig-zag capitals and carved heads to stops of chamfers

Double chamfered tower arch and chancel arch, the latter reset by Wyatt, has grouped shafts with finely carved stiff-leaf and water-leaf capitals

Chancel stained glass includes two signed windows by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake of London of late C19, very fine east window is unsigned

Glass in south aisle by Gibbs in two windows of 1855 and 1856, and by G. E. R. Smith to Edith Wansborough, died 1954

Pews, pulpit and especially good Romanesque-style font by Wyatt. (N. Pevsner, Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975. Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury).