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St Mary

St Mary

Broughton Gifford

Wiltshire

C13, C14, C15, restored 1878 by G.G. Scott

Architectural Features

South porch attached to west end of C14 south chapel, pointed moulded doorway with cusped crocketed image niche and bolection-moulded tablet over, diagonal buttresses to left, aisle to right has cusped lancet with pedimented tablet over, 3-light Perpendicular window to right, angle buttresses and 3-light, square-headed window to east end

Three-stage C15 west tower has diagonal buttresses

string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet

Double chamfered tower arch with early C20 carved screen by David Burry

Early C14 south aisle has 2-bay double chamfered pointed arcade on octagonal piers, good 2-bay roof with arch-braced collar rafters and runner with moulded soffits and bosses, cusped ogee piscina on south side, winding stone newel stairs at east end to former rood

C13 north arcade with double chamfered arches and cylindrical piers, good roof similar to south aisle, squints at east end of both aisles

C17 communion table

brass and iron communion rail

C13 cylindrical font bowl in tower

C19 stone polygonal pulpit with richly carved arcading and compound base

Some fragments of Medieval stained glass in north east aisle window

Monuments in Lady Chapel include scrolled pedimented tablet to Henry Harding died 1774, classical marble tablets to Isaac Dark died 1818, to Stephen Dark died 1815 and to William Curtis died 1806.