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St George

Orcheston

Wiltshire

C13 with late C15 chancel

Architectural Features

C12 north doorway

To left of porch, nave has cross window with pointed head, to right of porch is 2-light C16 window with cusped lights

Chancel has chamfered pointed door in centre of north side, to left is Tudor-arched window and to light is C13 cusped lancet, string course at eaves level, battlemented parapet to shallow-pitched roof

East window is 3-light C16-style with cusped lights

South side chancel has one Tudor-arched light and one C13 cusped lancet

South side nave has one 3-light C16-style window and one 2-light C16-style window either side, all with hoodmoulds

Tudor-arched west door has hollow-chamfered jambs and carved spandrels

hoodmould and grotesque beasts carved as terminals

single C16 window to each face, battlemented parapet and pyramidal tiled roof

pulpit and altar screen

C15-style font of 1833

1636 Royal Arms on south wall of nave

south wall of chancel has 1830 hatchment

C17 and C18 memorials includes brass in nave to John Elderton died 1695

Some good late C19 stained and painted glass, such as east window of 1888 and others in nave and chancel by Jones and Willis. (N Pevsner, Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975

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