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St Thomas A Becket

St Thomas A Becket

Coulston

Wiltshire

C12, C14, C17, restored 1868 by Richard Gane of Trowbridge

Architectural Features

West end of nave has C19 Tudor-arched doorway with double doors, string course over to 3-light mullioned and transomed window, probably C17, brick gable above, diagonal buttresses

South side of nave has blocked C12 doorway with crocketed capitals and missing shafts, blank tympanum and roll-moulded round arch, buttresses with offsets either side, 2-light C19 mullioned casement to right

C14 north vestry has square-headed light to east, reset cusped window head, diagonal buttresses to north with 3-light C19 mullioned casement in larger, partly blocked opening

Fittings: 1860s stained glass in east window

brass plaque by south window of chancel records 1868 restoration

C12 cylindrical stone font with simple blind arcading

Grey and white marble wall tablet with segmental pediment on north wall of chancel to Jacobus (sic) Meredith died 1746, brass on floor to James Meredith, rector died 1712

Brasses on south wall of nave to Elizabeth Godolphin died 1667 and to Thomas Lambe died 1741