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St Mary The Virgin

Dinton

Wiltshire

Late C12

Architectural Features

late C13

C13 north transept has C19 three-light Perpendicular- style north window, three stepped lancets to east

C14 chancel has low moulded pointed doorway with hoodmould and three 3-light windows with reticulated tracery to north side, east end has diagonal buttresses and large 5-light windows with intersecting tracery, ogee quatrefoil over, south side has three 3-light windows as north

Interior: Late C12 north doorway within porch has attached shafts with stylised leaf capitals and double chamfered pointed arch

C14 crossing with triple chamfered arches on chamfered square piers, quadripartite rib vault with bell rope hatch and Signs of the Evangelists on corbels

Chancel has pointed barrel vaulted roof with ribbed panels and rosettes, two cambered moulded tie-beams, polychrome tiled floor, moulded string course at sill level, C14 ogee-headed piscina on south wall

Fittings: pews and choir stalls, wood and stone hexagonal pulpit and communion rail by Butterfield

Square Purbeck marble font on columns with blind trefoiled arcading to sides

Original C14 stained glass in south east window of chancel

rest of glass clear

Royal Arms of George IT on south wall of nave

Monuments: Marble cartouche in chancel to Lawrence and Edward Hyde died 1676, marbles in north transept to members of Wyndham family of Phillips House (q.v.), the best to William Wyndham died 1733 with broken segmental pediment and arms, fluted pilasters and gadrooned apron

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