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St Mary

Donhead St Mary

Wiltshire

Late C12, C13, C14, C15, C19 restoration

Architectural Features

C14 gabled porch with diagonal buttresses and raked sides, Tudor-arched ovolo- moulded doorway, coped verge with cross finial to stone roof

South aisle has blocking course and 2-light C15 window with cusped lights and hoodmould either side of porch

Nave clerestory has five C13 lancets with hoodmoulds, coped verge with sanctus cross

South chapel has chamfered pointed priest's door and two 3-light C15 windows with cusped lights and hoodmoulds, blocking course with saddleback coping

Chancel has one 2-light C14 window to south and three C19 stepped lancets to east, diagonal buttresses and coped verge, large stone tablet to Jeremiah Bower died 1759 set against north wall

North aisle has central blocked hollow-chamfered doorway with hoodmould, 2- light C15 cusped window either side, blocking course

Nave clerestory has five C13 lancets

Three-stage west tower mostly C15 with angle buttresses and string courses

moulded string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet with eight crocketed pinnacles

Fine late C12 three-bay south arcade with double chamfered arches on octagonal abaci and cylindrical piers with multi-scalloped or stylised leaf capitals, blocked Tudor-arched west doorway in south aisle

North arcade of three double chamfered arches on cylindrical piers with plain chamfered capitals and roll-moulded bases, aisles have restored late Medieval lean-to roofs with carved bosses and chamfered ribs

Wide double hollow- chamfered pointed chancel arch on octagonal responds with wind- blown leaf capitals, chancel has C13-style east windows with rer- arches on marble shafts and C19 wooden pointed barrel-vaulted roof, 2-bay chapel arcades with hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded piers and moulded arches, roll-moulded pointed transitional archways between chapels and aisles, C19 pitched roofs

Good 1880s glass in east windows

rest of glass probably by Kempe

Restored Jacobean pulpit with carved panels

C12 black marble and stone drum font with arcading and carved 'woven' frieze

Pedestal piscina in south chapel with Dunston memorial glass of 1984

Photo coming soon