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All Saints

All Saints

Norton Bavant

Wiltshire

The C14/C15 three-stage west tower has a moulded plinth and diagonal buttresses

Architectural Features

It has a string course to the battlemented parapet with corner gargoyles

The stair turret on the north side has loopholes, a chamfered top with battlemented parapet and gargoyles, and a short spire

The C19 gabled vestry to the east has a chamfered pointed doorway to its west wall, and two-light Perpendicular-style and C16-style windows with hoodmoulds to the north and east respectively

The nave has a C19 six-bay roof with cusped, arch-braced collar trusses rising from carved corbels, and herringbone boarding

The timber pulpit and the nave benches are of standard design and probably belong to the restoration of 1863

The baluster stone font is C18

There are plain marble tablets in the nave to members of Eliot family, and the baluster stone font at the west end is C18

Its first floor retains a fireplace with chamfered jambs and a lintel carved with rosettes

There were three bells at Norton in 1553, one which survives and is believed to have been cast in Bristol in the late C14

The stained glass in the east window depicts the Crucifixion and is characteristic of the 1840s

On the south side of the nave, the Benett chapel has a C14 chamfered pointed archway on chamfered and roll-moulded responds set with a pair of late-C17 wrought-iron gates

It has a three-bay hammer-beam roof with carved angels and cusped wind bracing with dentilled mouldings

chapel retains a good collection of floor and wall monuments to members of Benett family

including a brass (floor) to John Benett (d.1461) and his wife

and two classical revival wall monuments, dated 1922 and 1947

The hipped roof has plain and fishscale tiles and crested ridge tiles