Church Of St Cosmas And St Damian

SHERRINGTON CHURCH LANE ST 93 NE (north side) 7/92 Church of St Cosmas and St Damian (formerly listed as 11.9.68 Church of St Michael and All Angels) GV I Anglican parish church. C14, rebuilt 1624. Dressed limestone, fishscale tiled roof with stone slate eaves and coped verges. Plan: nave with west bellcote, south porch, chancel. Gabled south porch with semi-circular arched doorway with cyma moulding and imposts, coped verge, stone slate roof, recessed panel with arms of Thomas Lambert of Boyton and date 1624 over door, initials SG inscribed on stone to right. Nave has 2-light square-headed window with plain pointed lights to left and right of porch and single semi-circular headed window to right, buttress with offsets. 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 also has ovolo- moulded pointed doorway with lozenge-shaped datestone over inscribed TL/1624/HG; datestone inscribed 1624/HG over east window. 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. C19 bellcote in ashlar to west gable with chamfered Tudor-arched openings and hoodmoulds with foliated terminals, fleur de lis shaped ridge coping. Interior: Porch has fixed stone benches, pointed chamfered inner doorway with good ledged door. Nave has plastered barrel-vaulted roof with ovolo-moulded wooden ribs and carved bosses, divided into 5 bays, flagstone floors. Plastered walls with good surviving painted cartouches with Biblical inscriptions and prayers, one with date 1630, uncovered 1939 and restored by Janet Becker. Moulded pointed chancel arch, chancel has 2-bay collar-truss roof with clasped purlins, previously plastered and ceiled at collar. Fittings: Good little altered fittings of early C17 throughout church. C17 pews with shell-headed bench ends'with floral carving, some strapwork friezes on high-backed pew near south door, polygonal carved wooden pulpit, communion table with turned legs, communion rails with turned balusters and Tuscan newels, strapwork carving on rail. Restored C13 octagonal stone font at west end with C17 wooden cover. Queen Ann Royal Arms over chancel arch. Panelled reredos in chancel in same style as pews, in memory of rector died 1909. 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. (N. Pevsner, The Build of England, Wiltshire, 1975; R.D. Richardson, Church Guide)

Listing NGR: ST9603539198