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Architectural Features

mostly rebuilt in C15, including the ornate south (or Hungerford) chapel built in 1442 for Walter, Lord Hungerford, Lord High Treasurer to Henry VI

C14 base to tower, which was rebuilt in Gothic Survival style in 1633

the west front has a crocketed niche to the gable over a projecting rectangular porch with a swept, hipped stone slate roof supported by C13-style engaged columns below curved corbelling to a cornice and oak gutter

The tower to the west end of the C19 nave is in 3-stages, rebuilt except for the C14 lower stage in 1633

The 3-bay C15 Hungerford Chapel (baptistry) has a richly moulded plinth and string course

The right return has a flat-arched 3-light window with label mould and diagonal square stops which would have lit the area below the former gallery.To the south-east corner is a head gargoyle

The 3-bay C15 south-east chapel (Lady Chapel) has a richly carved parapet of square quatrefoiled panels with foliate bosses to the centres and carved heads to the string course

To the north chapel is a repositioned Norman chancel arch with chevron moulding and scalloped capitals to paired engaged columns

to the east of the arch is a reset C12 window, from the north wall of the nave

The 1752 organ by Seede of Bristol, repositioned to the east end of the north aisle, has a fine carved oak Baroque case with crowned trumpeting angels flanking a segmental pediment and pulvinated frieze

C19 stained glass to the south aisle

the 1902 screen to the east end was carved from timber of the former roof

The sill of the window to the east of the south door was lowered in the late C19 to accomodate a large stained-glass memorial window

Fronting the chancel arch is an elaborate c1920 medieval-style wooden rood screen of 3 semicircular arches below ribbed vaulting, framed by slender reeded columns and lintel

2 kneeling figures face each other

The monument is flanked by pilasters and obelisks supported by putti

In the south-east corner is a repositioned medieval relief carving of figure (origin unknown) approx 2m high

HISTORY: the restoration of 1875-78 included extending the chancel 6m, adding a clerestory, rebuilding the nave and repositioning the Norman arch and the organ. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Wiltshire: London: 1967-1975: 167-8).

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