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St Mary

Upavon

Wiltshire

Early C13

Architectural Features

early C15

Chancel is late C12-early C13 with 3 round headed windows

two being in east wall and C19 central window perhaps replacing larger central C13 window

Large C13 west tower with roll moulded west door and 3-light intersecting tracery window over

Nave has 5 bay roof of C15 replacing earlier steeper pitched roof

C13 arcade of 4 bays on north, the eastern arch on a pier perhaps to a separate chapel

C19 encaustic tiles in sanctuary

Fittings: under tower arch, good late C12-early C13 font, octagonal with foliated crosses, lions and an Annunciation in a late Romanesque style

Pulpit, C19

Late C16 altar table and C19 brass altar rail

A second altar in the north aisle is a C17 chest, now containing fragmented stone wheel cross

Monuments: Chancel: Wall tablet

In vestry: Limestone tablet on bracket, to Thomas Chandler, died 1752, and two C19-early C20 brasses

Also four brasses erected by the Central Flying School, Upavon, to officers killed on duty 1913, 1914 and 1927

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