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the Holy Rood

The Holy Rood

Rodbourne

Wiltshire

C12 (nave)

Architectural Features

C13 (chancel)

C15 (south porch)

North side has C12 doorway with square abaci and tympanum with incised cross and hoodmould: plank door

Chancel south side has triangular-arched doorway with plank door and a 2- light C15 style C19 window

North side has a 2-light C14 style window with face stops to hoodmould

Two-light C13 east window under pointed head

Three-stage tower with saddleback roof, moulded string courses and single, 2 and 3-light C13 style windows

Gabled baptistry with 2- light C13 style window

inner south doorway with round-headed arch and C12 tympanum with rustic Tree of Life carving and plank door

C14 style C19 font to baptistry

C13 statue niche with crocketed pinnacles to right of north door

Caroline pulpit

C15 rood screen with C19 restoration

Morris & Co. (1863) stained glass to east window: Adam and Eve to left designed by Ford Maddox Brown, Annunciation to right by D.G. Rosetti

Stone seat with semicircular back probably C13