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St Mary

Codford

Wiltshire

Those in the chancel are carved angels

Architectural Features

PRINCIPAL FITTINGS: a C12 cylindrical stone font with roll mouldings, possibly recut, and a short columnar stem on a later base

a Jacobean polygonal carved wooden pulpit with 1913 back panels and sounding board that has been reset on a C19 stone plinth

the stained glass includes two-light aisle window of 1844, possibly coloured by James Ingram

and unsigned glass of 1910 in the east window

In the south chapel is part of an early-C17 stone monument probably erected to commemorate Sir John Mompesson (d.1584). It has two round arches and composite columns to a carved frieze and cornice with the Mompesson arms in panels below

Photo coming soon