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St James

Berwick St James

Wiltshire

C12, C13, C14, C16, C17, restored 1871

Architectural Features

probably C16

4- light C16 cusped mullioned window to east wall

North chapel to left has single-light cusped C16 window and 3-light C16 window to east, lead roof

Nave clerestory has moulded string course and 2-light C16 cusped window to right of porch and 3-light to left, string course to parapet with saddleback coping

East end has pilaster and angle buttresses and stepped triple lancets, south side has central pair of lancets flanked by single lancets, C14 cusped lancet to left, buttresses with offsets

South chapel has 2-light C16 cusped window and pair of cusped ogee lancets

South side of nave has blocked shouldered doorway, C14 two-light cusped ogee window to left, offset string course to clerestory

two 2-light and one single-light C16 cusped windows, parapet as north side

porch retains 3 stone corbels for removed upper floor, stone bench, fine C12 round-headed doorway with zig-zag ornament, plain tympanum with some incised lozenge decoration to square-headed door lintel, attached shafts with scalloped capitals, good ribbed door

curved bracing to carved head corbels

probably C16

Blocked moulded elliptically-arched doorway with broken crockets on north wall, formerly to pulpit

ogee cusped lancet and C13 lancet on north wall

continuous roll-moulded sills cut by C14 lancets

each with small cusped recess, chamfered rere-arches to C13 lancets

Fittings: good late C17 communion rail with turned balusters and vase finials

late Medieval carved stone pulpit

C12 stone cylindrical font on pedestal with moulded plinth

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