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St Mary

East Knoyle

Wiltshire

C12, C13, C14, C15, 1845 restoration by Wyatt and Brandon, 1876 by A.W. Blomfield, tower restored 1893 by P. Webb

Architectural Features

Gabled south porch with diagonal buttress, C14 double chamfered pointed opening with compound pilasters

Nave has C19 three-light Perpendicular-style window to left, two 2-light square-headed C15 windows to clerestory

C12 chancel has two C13 lancets on north and south walls

north wall also has blocked doorway and traces of C12 round-arched blind arcading

C15 five-light Perpendicular east window

North aisle, double gabled with west half added 1829, has pair of C14 cusped lancets and unidentified oval wall tablet on east wall, two 2-light cusped pointed windows on north and C19 ashlar stack and trefoil to west

C15 square-headed clerestory window

Large C15 three- stage tower has moulded plinth

wide C15 moulded west doorway with lozenge terminals to hoodmould

string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet

Neo-Norman chancel arch with zig-zag moulded round arch, chancel has late C19 three-bay rib-panelled roof, 2-seat sedilia and piscina with trefoil heads on south wall, Minton tiled reredos, exceptional plasterwork by Robert Brockway for Dean Christopher Wren, c1639, depicting biblical scenes such as Jacob's Dream and the Ascension with texts in panels with strapwork decoration, strapwork friezes

Fittings: C17 altar table and C17 polygonal pulpit reset on C19 stone base

C13 octagonal stone font with foliage carving

Early C19 brass candelabra in chancel

Stained glass east window to Seymour family

Monuments: Grey marble table in chancel to Elizabeth Seymour died 1742 with pediment and urn in keyed oculus

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