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St Edith Of Wilton

Dinton

Wiltshire

C14, C15, restored 1880-93 by William Butterfield

Architectural Features

Chancel has two 2-light pointed Perpendicular windows, east end has buttresses with offsets, 2- light C14 window with ogee cusping and single cusped ogee-headed light over

West 3-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, 2-light C15 square-headed window with cusped lights, inserted into blocked doorway, single ogee-headed light over, bellstage has 2-light square-headed louvred window with cusped lights to north, west and south sides, cavetto-moulded cornice to plain stone parapet with saddleback coping

Interior: Porch has arch-braced collar rafter roof, plain chamfered round-arched inner doorway with C19 door, C15 stoup set in east warn of porch to right of door, tiled inscription frieze records restoration, paid-for by Marianne Charrington

Chancel screen in Perpendicular style by Butterfield, chancel has 1½ bay panelled vaulted ceiling, tiled floor and dado, arched door to vestry, piscina and one-seat sedilia on south window sill, polychrome-tiled reredos set in stone panels, Medieval coffin lid with relief-carved crosses set in floor either side of altar

pulpit and lectern by Butterfield

restored C13 font in tower

North transept has early C19 box pews and white marble tablets by Osmond of Sarum to Powells of Hurdcott House, good pink marble cartouche in Elizabethan style to John Leech of Hurdcott House, died 1862, north window stained glass signed by Gibbs and Howard of London, in memory of Alexander Powell died 1882

Stained glass in east window by Gibbs, west window signed by G.E.R. Smith, in memory of Guy Harding died 1944

Monuments in tower include marble to Rev

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