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St Mary The Virgin

Farleigh Hungerford

Wiltshire

C15, restored 1840

Architectural Features

West entrance in base of tower has Tudor-arched doorway with double ledged doors and hoodmould, 3-stage Perpendicular tower has diagonal buttresses, string courses and 3-light Perpendicular window over doorway, chamfered arrowloop to middle stage, bellstage has blind traceried panels and 3-light open panels with latticed stone louvres, string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet with traceried panels and crocketed corner pinnacles, octagonal stair turret on south east corner with similar decoration and crocketed domed roof

C15 north chapel has set-back buttresses

moulded string course with gargoyles and battlemented parapet

Tower arch with traceried panelled soffits, stair turret corbelled into nave, with carved stone Devil below

Two-bay north chapel of c1400 has moulded piers with attached shafts, pointed arches, partly restored roof with finely carved panels with moulded ribs and bosses, east window flanked by damaged image niches, squint cut into east respond of aisle arcade

Fittings: Mid C17 chancel screen

C15 choir stalls with traceried panels

polygonal carved wooden pulpit dated 1607

octagonal stone pulpit with finely carved ogee-shaped cover

probably C15

C15 stained glass in chancel, east window depicting Christ on the cross

Monuments: Rococo stone tablet in nave to John Painter died 1723 with scrolled pediment and fluted pilasters

with female figure and an urn

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