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St Mary

St Mary

Calne

Wiltshire

Late C14 St Edmund's N chapel

Architectural Features

late C15 clerestory and nave roof

Norman nave

except for C17 Gothic Survival tower and chancel

EXTERIOR: rubble chancel has angle buttresses, plinth and low parapet, with a C19 four-centre arched 5-light window, with 2-light C17 mullion windows in each side with labels

2 gargoyles to the cornice

Gabled W end has a C19 5-light window similar to the E end, with a canopied statue niche in the gable above, and a C17 two-centre arched doorway in a label with shields in the spandrels, and a ribbed 2-leaf door

S aisle and clerestory as the N. C19 S porch has attached columns with moulded capitals, and 3 good C15 gargoyles to the E side

Ashlar S chancel chapel with 2 flat-headed 3-light C17 windows

INTERIOR: details include chancel with C17 timber roof with moulded ties, arch braced to corbels

Nave has mid C12 Transitional arcade with round columns

mid C17 rebuilt wide flat shafts with responds at E end

Five C12 columns to N side

first from the E with a carved corner head to the capital

C12, probably reset, 2-centre arch to N porch door with chevron moulding and billet mould

Good shallow C15 tie beam roof with alternate king posts on king and bishop head corbels, and Perpendicular tracery, and plain ties with cresting on the principal rafter

FITTINGS: fine chest dated 1579, inscribed on inside of lid QER/XXI, with 3 early C17 locks, set within a large oak trunk

C15 octagonal font with curved base, and panelled sides with quatrefoil heads

in the S chapel, a reset C15 piscina with cinquefoil head

C19 pulpit with the 12 Apostles to the sides

MONUMENTS: wall tablet to William Norborne, d.1659