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St Nicholas

Fisherton de la Mere

Wiltshire

Early C12, C13, C15, restorations 1833, 1861 by W. Hardwick and 1912

Architectural Features

Chequered limestone and flint, tiled roof with ornamental tiles to chancel roof, Welsh slates to nave

fragments of C12 chevron from an archway

two 2-light restored C14 pointed windows

Chancel with C19 roll-moulded string courses and three restored lancets, corbel table, east end has two C13 lancets with hoodmoulds and central pilaster buttress, C19 quatrefoil over, coped verge wth cross finial, north side has three restored lancets, corbel table

finely carved Perpendicular-style with open traceried panels and solid newel stairs

Double chamfered C13 chancel arch with broach stops and C12 paired half-shaft responds with carved capitals resembling drapery

original C13 rere-arches to north and east end

Fittings: Minton tiled reredos, plain pointed piscina on south wall, brass candelabra in chancel

1912 pews, C17 freestanding octagonal pulpit with strapwork frieze, from East Anglia

C12 limestone cylindrical font

Royal Arms of George III over south door

1830's grisaille-style glass

Monuments include 1624 Crockford tablet with bas-relief carving of figure in bed and another in shroud, Cl9 marble tablets by Osmond of Sarum to Davis family and by King of Bath to John Davis, died 1791

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