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St Mary

Boyton

Wiltshire

Late C13, C14, C15, 1860 restoration by T.H. Wyatt

Architectural Features

C14 north transept

2-stage C15 north tower with entrance

North doorway has late C13 arch with attached shafts, heavily moulded with dogtooth ornament, possibly reset, double doors with highly ornamental hinges

To right is lean-to vestry with C14 ogee-headed lancet and C19 ashlar stack

North transept to left of tower has good C14 3-light window with reticulated tracery and hoodmould, coped verges to gabled front, east side has two chamfered lancets and blocking course with pierced trefoils

West end has hollow-chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with square hoodmould with carved spandrels and lozenge labels, C19 door with ornamental hinges, 3-light Perpendicular window over

Giffard Chapel has especially fine C13 features

Lady Margaret Giffard died 1338, in arcade is recumbent effigy of Sir Alexander Giffard died 1250, but probably late C13 effigy

Chancel has C19 scissor rafter roof, C13 trefoiled piscina and three stepped sedilia with attached shafts

C19 Albany Hatchment on north wall

C17 style bench ends to choir stalls

east window contains fragments of medieval glass

Elaborately carved wooden pulpit with hexagonal sounding board, of 1964

C13 cylindrical font at west end of nave

West window stained glass by Horwood of Mells

1960 reset C17 and C18 roudels in Giffard Chapel glass

1860s glass in north chapel

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