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St Cosmas And St Damian

Sherrington

Wiltshire

C14, rebuilt 1624

Architectural Features

Chancel has two C14 two-light square-headed windows with ogee cusping to south and north

diagonal buttresses and 4-light C14 window with interlaced tracery to east

North side of nave has blocked pointed doorway, 2-light C17 windows with pointed lights either side, buttresses with offsets

West end has diagonal buttresses, C14 three-light window with reticulated tracery, chamfered lancet over

Nave has plastered barrel-vaulted roof with ovolo-moulded wooden ribs and carved bosses, divided into 5 bays, flagstone floors

Fittings: Good little altered fittings of early C17 throughout church

C17 pews with shell-headed bench ends'with floral carving

polygonal carved wooden pulpit

strapwork carving on rail

Restored C13 octagonal stone font at west end with C17 wooden cover

Queen Ann Royal Arms over chancel arch

Stained glass of 1900 in east window

some reset C17 roundels of Flemish glass in chancel

Monuments include a limestone gothic-style tablet in chancel to Mason Anderson died 1852.

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