St Mary The Virgin

Large clerestory windows and crenellated parapet with pinnacles concealing higher pitched roof of former C13 nave

Gabled string over with large leaf crockets and flanking panelled buttresses, being a C15 encasement of the late C13 porch

Inner doorcase has nook shafts with scrolled capitals carrying early C13 round arch with corbel at its apex

Interior: Nave of Early C13, arcades of 4 bays, pointed arches of 2 orders on round columns with trumpet scalloped capitals

Unplastered walls above reveal positions of 4 clerestory windows each side, the eastern sills raised when rood screen access inserted

North aisle has 2 western lancets, the lower late C12-early C13, the upper with the adjacent aumbry, serving a former floored area under the early steep roof

Blocked :stair in north aisle led to bridge across aisle to rood screen

Crossing is inserted later in early C13 work: heavy octagonal piers carrying lierne vault

C15 reworking of an earlier crossing

Carved bosses at intersections of vault, and central circular bell-lift

Trefoiled early-mid C13 piscina, with credence shelf

C15 wall painting of ashlar in reveal of west windows

Eastern chapel, to Our Lady of the Bower, also C13, converted to Ernle chapel in 1563

late C13

carved bosses at intersection of double- shafted ribs

Inserted late C13-early C14 two-bay sedilia partly obscuring earlier piscina with blocked low window to exterior

Mid C13 piscina at east end with bowl supported on twin columns

Sacristry of 2 storeys, the ground floor C13, and upper floor a late medieval alteration

Fittings: Font: Late C15

Pulpit: C19

Nice brass and iron handrail with crozier terminal

Lectern: C19 oak eagle

Gothick case, refurbished 1884 but some original pipework., Pews, 1883 by Hems of Exeter, with carved bench ends

Furniture: Crossing Altar: C17 table with carved top rails and stretchers

Offertory Box, also C17, heavy turned column with octagonal head bound in iron and with the 3 locks required by Canon Law

early C17

probably C15

bearing a joyless painting of early C17 (?) depicting the hand of meditation

In Lady Chapel: C16 table with baluster legs

C17-early C18 houselling bench

Monuments: Chancel south wall: Tablet, white marble on slate, to Thomas Brown of Horton, died 1822, and later family

Also a limestone monument, a shouldered panel with pediment, gadrooned base and fluted apron, to Rev

Inscribed panel on strapwork cartouche within recess, to John Ernle of Bourton, died 'A thousand, five hundred threescore and a leven'. On east wall, a floor based wall monument, purbeck marble panel in white marble frame, and purbeck columns

Brasses: In chancel eleven C19 brasses from 1862 to 1922

Nave: Two Barrow Mogg brasses

External monuments: On south porch, 1792, a limestone panel with crest and apron and illegible inscription between pilasters

On chancel: 1735, an aedicule with fluted pilasters and broken pediment, to Sarah Gambler of Devizes, and further monument of 1734, a panel with heavy foliage around, to Mary Sloper

Glass: East window: C13 design by Wailes

Pale figures in south chancel windows