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Holy Trinity

Bowerchalke

Wiltshire

C13, C15, 1886 restoration by T.H. Wyatt

Architectural Features

Dressed limestone, tiled roof with fishscale tile bands

Tower has diagonal buttresses, string courses and heavy moulded plinth, 2-light square-headed Perpendicular window and blocked round-headed window to second stage, north side of bellstage has pointed Perpendicular window and west has square-headed window, both with louvres, circular clock face on north side, bellstage with clasping buttresses, upper part is C19 with cornice with gargoyles to battlemented parapet, pyramidal tiled roof

North chapel, now vestry is C16 with 2-light square-headed Perpendicular window with lozenge terminals to hoodmould, diagonal buttress to gabled east end with 2-light Tudor-arched doorway

C13 chancel has 2 ogee cusped lancets to north, C19 three-light east window with hoodmould, south side has ogee lancet either side of pointed priest's door

C16 south transept has 2-light square-headed window with cusped lights and hoodmould to east

good late C17 and C18 memorial tablets against south wall to Good family

trefoil-headed lancets and C16 two-light cusped window to right

west end of aisle has C19 three-light C16-style window

West end of nave has C13 two-light pointed window with cusped lights

C19 south arcade in C13 style with double chamfered arches on cylindrical piers

C16 north and south transepts have deep chamfered pointed arches from nave

stone tablet on south wall of south transept to Alice Good died 1735 with carved volutes and segmental-headed cornice

Double chamfered chancel arch, chancel has C19 polychrome tiled floor, C19 boarded and ribbed wagon roof with carved bosses, pointed chamfered piscina on south wall

Fittings: C19 pews and pulpit

C13 cylindrical stone font with roll moulding

1890s stained glass in south aisle

1920s glass in chancel.

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