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St Mary The Virgin

Upton Scudamore

Wiltshire

C12, C13, C14, C15, C18, restored 1855 by G.E. Street

Architectural Features

Early C14 north chapel to left has C19 group of 3 cusped lancets, reset Medieval grotesque mask over west buttress, diagonal buttress and 3 stepped cusped lancets to east

Chancel has C19 pair of lancets to north, diagonal buttresses and C19 stepped lancets to east, south side has 2-light plate tracery window and lean-to C19 vestry with tile-hung south side, 3 stepped wooden lancets to east, cusped bargeboards

Interior has fine C12 north doorway within porch

contains two damaged effigies and a fragment of a carved Crucifixion, from the demolished Crucifix Cottages, Norridge

Double chamfered chancel arch with attached shafts, 3-bay cusped braced collar truss roof, polychrome tiled floor and fittings by Street: sedilia and piscina on south wall, organ case, choir stalls, communion rail, altar, wall lights, C13-style rere-arches to east window with 1850s glass

Other fittings: wooden pulpit on stone plinth by Street

C12 cylindrical stone font with bands of lozenges and triangles

Monuments in chancel include a group to Seaman family

two C17 tablets to William and Lionel Seaman

brass on north wall to Elizabeth Hungerford died 1632

Photo coming soon