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St Michael

Compton Chamberlayne

Wiltshire

Late C13

Architectural Features

C14 and C15

hollow-chamfered pointed arched doorway with diagonal buttress to left and angle buttress to right, offset string courses, bellstage has 2-light segmental-headed Perpendicular louvred window with hoodmould to south side, west side has lancet to second stage and cusped square-headed window to bellstage, string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet

South transept has three trefoil-headed stepped lancets in pointed arch, diagonal buttress to right, east side has C15 two-light cusped square-headed window

North side of nave has C14 two-light window with reticulated tracery to left and 2-light Perpendicular window to right, west end has 3-light Perpendicular window with hoodmould, coped verge with saddlestone, large clasping buttress to left and diagonal buttress to right

Interior: Porch has hollow-chamfered inner doorway, square bowl from C12 font with blind arcading leaning against wall to left, stone bench to right and square recess for stoup to right of door

North transept, now vestry, has double chamfered arch on C13 compound half-piers with keel moulding and moulded capping, 3-bay restored collar roof, part of former doorway on west side of transept, from nave

octagonal stone font in nave

possibly C14

Tudor pulpit with linenfold panelling

Monuments include a scrolled pedimented stone tablet in chancel to Johannis (sic) Martin died 1693, large white marble on north wall of chancel records the deaths of members of Penruddocke family of Compton Park House (q.v.), probably early C19.

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