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St Andrew

Plaitford

Wiltshire

Nave has polychrome tiled floor, C12 sculpture with two figures, above door on north wall, 4½ bay roof with arch-braced collar, clasped purlins and arched windbracing

Architectural Features

South aisle has two chamfered pointed arches on cylindrical C13-style pier

South transept has plastered wagon roof and fine collection of C18 memorial tablets, mostly to the Eyre family of Landford Manor (q.v.) such as a baroque marble on west wall with scrolled pediment to Elizabeth Eyre died 1758 and large marble on east wall with carved drapery and skull to Robert Eyre died 1793

Double- chamfered pointed chancel arch on half-conical corbels, 2-bay arched-braced collar roof and polychrome tile frieze to walls of chancel, south wall has sedilia and piscina

All fittings are by Butterfield, other than glass

Simple limestone octagonal font

wooden pulpit

All windows with good stained glass, the east window of 1861 by Lavers and Barraud, the west windows also by them of 1858 and 1870, to designs of N. H. J. Westlake, tracery by J. M. Allen

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