St Thomas A Becket

Ashlar with stone tile and slate roofs

Nave with C14 north arcade

north aisle rebuilt 1713 with C14 north-east chapel

crossing tower C14

with C15 bell-stage and spire

chancel with C12 origins

C14 and 1713 and projecting 2-storey north-east vestry

possibly a priest's house of late C14 or C15

Nave has C15 3-light Perpendicular west window over C16 door in Tudor arched moulded frame with carved spandrels, hoodmould and 6-panel C18 door

East end of north aisle, under continuous roof is Hazelbury chapel with restored C14 intersecting tracery 3-light north window and north-east angle buttress similar to aisle north- west buttress

Crossing tower has plain lower stage, possibly C12 in origins with C14 lancet to north and south and buttresses added in C15 with bell-stage

Chancel south and east walls were rebuilt 1713, retaining C14 3-light east window

North wall has much restored C15 3-light window over 1897 porch

North-east vestry is of rubble stone, coped north gable and late C14 or C15 2-light Perpendicular window with hoodmould and carved label stops

Interior: Nave has broad C19 roof, 1834 4-bay south arcade and C14 north arcade, built in two stages with octagonal piers and caps, moulded pointed arches and hoodmoulds

East bay opens into Hazelbury chapel which has C14 moulded rib vault

C14 cusped tomb recess on north wall and fine east wall altar recess with side colonnettes

North window has stained glass of 1899 signed P.H. Newman

North aisle has C18 plastered roof and 3 late c19 or C20 stained glass windows

C15 octagonal font

In nave c1897 stone pulpit

Tower has C14 moulded arches to west and east and blocked north door

Chancel has C18 plaster roof, Gothic altar and reredos (1897 H.Brakspear) with opus sectile tile mosaic panels, attached to a low wall, creating east end vestry space

Numerous monuments from C17 to C19

in south aisle c1760 elaborate varicoloured marble wall monument to Margaret Blow and 2 finely lettered late C17 black marble slabs to Sir George and Francis Speke of Hazelbury

In nave, east wall armorial plaque to A. Long died 1578 and in chancel, south wall curved pedimented monument to T. Goddard, died 1691, north wall Baroque plaque to W. Eyre died 1699 and in east end vestry space 3 Northey memorials from 1750 to early C19. (M. & A. Devon: St Thomas A Becket Church, Box, Wiltshire 1984.) -