St Mary

3 stage C15 west tower with chamfered plinth and string courses, stepped diagonal buttresses, fleuron frieze and embattled parapet with gargoyles.

St Mary's Church, Wilsford is dominated by its slender Perpendicular spire - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5001341 The church itself is mainly Early English, although there are two Norman piers in the nave from an earlier building. There are some gargoyles on the tower although not as many as the fine collection of gargoyles and grotesques on the tower of St Andrew's Church at Kelby, the next village to the south - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5001649

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The west well of the north aisle contains a 2 light C14 reticulated window in a wave moulded surround.

Also a C14 priest's door with continuously moulded and pointed surround.

The C15 clerestorey has 3 broad 3 light windows on the north side with hollow chamfered 4 centred arched surrounds.

The C13 chancel has a plain parapet and a single lancet in the north wall.

C14 east window of 4 lights has fine flowing tracery forming mouchettes, daggers and quatrefoils.

In the south wall of the chancel are 2 further lancets and a recut C14 2 light reticulated window.

Immediately to the west is a further C13 lancet.

The C13 south aisle has a lancet to the east

in the south wall is a broad 3 light C15 window with cusped heads to the lights and crude perpendicular tracery set in a hollow chamfered triangular surround.

The C15 gabled south porch has a continuously moulded outer 4 centred arched doorway with moulded hood and above a blank trefoil headed niche.

The inner doorway is C13, recut, with a pointed head and plain chamfered surround.

Interior: Tall 2 bay late C12 north nave arcade with slender round pillar and cross-shaped capitals supporting double chamfered round arches.

The south arcade has one large C13 arch to the west which is pointed and chamfered with annular shafted reveals, and to the east a second smaller matching arch.

Tall C15 tower arch with chamfered octagonal reveals, moulded imposts and 4 centred arched head.

In the north wall of the chancel is a broad C13 arch, double chamfered with dog tooth hood mould, all supported on C12 triple shafted reveals with quirks and cushion capitals.

Fittings: All are C19, including the panelled ashlar pulpit apart from the C15 octagonal font which has sunk quatrefoils to the sides and stem.

A reset door at the rear of the nave appears to be part of a C14 oak screen with cusped ogee arched panels, brattished midrail and traces of red and gold paint.