St Aldheim

Three-stage C14 tower has diagonal buttresses

string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet

Chancel with more steeply pitched roof, two 2- light Decorated style windows with hoodmoulds, reset C17 wall tablet with good lettering, east end has diagonal buttresses and 4- light C19 window with flowing tracery and hoodmould, north side has one Decorated style window and lean-to vestry with cusped lancets and pointed doorway

Interior: Late C19 carved screen and double doors between porch in tower and nave

nave side has fine floral carving and traceried panels in tympanum of C14 cyma and hollow-chamfered arch with attached shafts

Pulpit and font of 1877

brass communion rail

carved wooden reredos in same style as screen

C17 copper plaque on south wall of chancel to Elener(sic) Seaman died 1633, marble tablet on north side to Anne Fisher died 1783, classical marble to Temple family of Bishopstrow House (q.v.), 1840

East window stained glass by Hughes

1892 and some good unsigned glass in nave to Temple family

Hanoverian Royal Arms in nave

Church rebuilt in 1757 and prior to chancel restoration of 1840 east end was apsidal, possibly Saxon. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975).