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St John And St Helen

Wroughton

Wiltshire

Parish Church of St John and St Helen SU 1380 22/527 26.1.55 I GV 2. C15 West Tower

Architectural Features

C14 aisled and clerestoried 3 bay nave with South porch

3 bay C14 chancel with North chapel and 2 bay C19 vestry

Little except the North and South doom and possibly the bases of the arcades survive of the Norman church

South door: late C12 with horizontal zig-zag order and saltire crosses to label, foliate caps to slender nook shafts

Interior: double chamfered pointed arcades with dying mouldings, North arcade dates from 1846 and probably replaces a Norman one

Late 014/early C15 roof to nave: moulded principal timbers to low pitched panelled roof, arched upper purlins

arcaded trusses with braces from carved head corbels

Fine sedilia with crocketted ogee arches and carved piscina

both probably C14

epitaph to William Sadler, early C17, mentioning the Armada. large iron bound parish chest in nave

The churchyard is well stocked with C17 and C18 headstones, including a triple one on North side

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