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St George

Fovant

Wiltshire

C13, C14, late C15, restored 1863 by T.H. Wyatt

Architectural Features

South aisle has two 3-light Tudor-arched late C15 windows with hoodmoulds to left and square-headed 3-light window with hoodmould to right, buttress with offset

South chapel has reset C12 doorway with coupled columns and planked C19 door

both with 3-light C14 windows with reticulated tracery and hoodmoulds

North aisle is lean-to with 3-light square-headed C16 window to east, remains of clasping buttress at east end of nave, north side of aisle has C19 three-light and two 2-light cusped square-headed windows and chamfered pointed doorway, west end has 2-light cusped square-headed window

Good late C15 three-stage tower has moulded plinth

west side of tower has moulded pointed doorway with angel terminals to hoodmould

quatrefoil frieze with gargoyles to parapet of cusped triangles with open quatrefoils to merlons of battlement

Tall double chamfered tower arch with C19 screen incorporating reset C15 cusped open arcading, polychrome tiled floor to baptistry in tower, Tudor- arched doorway to stairs

Fittings: C19 limestone octagonal font on marble column in tower

C19 stone and marble pulpit with relief- carved heads of Apostles and cast-iron and brass railings to steps continuing across chancel on low stone wall

Brass plaque in chancel has Latin inscription recording the rebuilding of tower by George Rede, rector in 1495.

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