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St Martin

Barford St Martin

Wiltshire

C13, C15, restoration and rebuilding of north transept 1841

Architectural Features

Two-stage crossing tower has buttresses with offsets, round gilded clockfaces on north and east sides, offset bellstage has 2-light pointed Perpendicular windows with louvres, cavetto-moulded cornice to battlemented parapet with gargoyles

Interior: C20 vestibule at west end of nave, with 6-bay C16 king- post roof

C13 crossing rebuilt C15 with hollow and cyma-moulded piers, tierceron vault on octagonal shafts with rosette and zoomorphic bosses and central circle for bells

Chancel has 3-bay collar-truss roof, good C17 wainscot panelling with rosette frieze and C17 choir stalls, C19 encaustic tiled floor

Fine C17 chip-carved wooden altar with matching reredos, possibly re-using panels

Font at west end

Relief-carved Royal Arms on east wall of nave

1920s Gothic-style stained glass

Monuments: good brass in south transept to Alis Walker died 1584

Stone panel in chancel with relief figure of woman with basket of loaves, restored niche on south wall contains late Medieval painted effigy of woman with Latin inscription

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