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St Mary

Wylye

Wiltshire

C13, C15, 1846 rebuilding by T.H. Wyatt

Architectural Features

Gabled south porch with Tudor-arched doorway with blocked reset C14 niche over, diagonal buttresses, cusped lancet to west side

Chancel has pair of C13 lancets with C19 quatrefoil over

three C13 stepped lancets with attached billet-moulded shafts with stiff leaf capitals and dogtooth ornament to arches

coped verge on Medieval carved head corbels

Three-stage tower has cyma-moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses, moulded Tudor- arched west doorway, 3-light pointed Perpendicular window and octagonal clock face over, south side has 2-light C16-style window to second stage, moulded string course to bellstage

2-light pointed Perpendicular window with decorative pierced louvres to south and west sides, single light to north and square-headed 2- light Perpendicular window to east, moulded string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles

North aisle has 3-bay arcade with plain chamfered arches on C14- style octagonal piers, arch-braced collar truss roof

C19 three-bay chancel roof, good Minton tiled floor of 1871, fine east windows with C13 billet-moulded rere-arches on shafts with stiff-leaf capitals, five stone tablets set in walls

Fittings: very finely carved Jacobean pulpit with octagonal tester dated 1628

barleysugar balusters to stairs late C17

C19 octagonal stone font

C18 vase font retained at west end of north aisle

three brass candelabra in nave, one dated 1814, from Wilton St

Some good late C19 and early C20 stained glass including two windows by Kempe in north aisle, 1840's glass in chancel

George III Royal Arms in north aisle

Medieval carving on north wall of the Crucifixion, said to be originally over porch door

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