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Saint Mary And Saint Ethelbert

Luckington

Wiltshire

Anglican parish church, C1200 to C15, restored and chancel rebuilt 1892 by A.W. Blomfield, rubble stone with stone slate roofs and coped gables

Architectural Features

Nave and aisle have C15 fenestration

nave has tall 3-light pointed west window and north side flat-headed 3-light and 2-light with hoodmoulds each side of moulded pointed C14 north door in plain C18 gabled porch

South east chapel is 1872 reconstruction of C13 original with two pairs of lancets to south side, buttresses, rectangular window to right with hoodmoulds, and east end 3-light stepped lancets

Four-stage north tower, C13 with bottom stage north paired lancets, second stage small lancet loops to north and east and third stage blocked 2-light bell-openings, with plate-traceried quatrefoil heads, raised angle piers and corbel table

Top bell-stage is C15 with 2-light Perpendicular openings and hoodmoulds linked by dripcourse

C15 arch-braced collar rafter roofs to nave and aisle

Nave has two low niches in north east angle, perhaps a former reredos, behind C17 or C18 panelled stone pulpit

Chancel, dated 1872, has marble shafted lancets, two to north, one to south and much restored C13 two bay arcade to south east chapel with Purbeck marble shafted piers, quatrefoil bases and caps

brass rails

encaustic tiles

Fittings and monuments: chancel stained glass and on south east chapel window of c1910 by W.E. Tower

Large stone bowl font and west wall coloured marble monument to J. Harford died 1769. (N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975 313-4).

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