Church Of All Saints

ST 98 SW ST PAUL MALMESBURY RODBOURNE ROAD, Corston WITHOUT (north side)

8/165 Church of All Saints

28.10.59

GV II*

Anglican parish church. Early C15 (bell-turret and south porch), thorough rebuilding in 1881 with 1911 chancel. Squared and coursed rubble with stone dressings, ashlar copings and stone slate roofs. Nave, chancel, west bell-turret, south porch, north vestry. Nave has 2-light C13 style windows under pointed heads with hoodmoulds and some face stops. Chancel has single-light C15 style windows under flat heads to side walls and a 2-light east window under pointed head. Bell-turret open at sides with embattled fret to cornice and lead pyramidal cap. On west face below turret a buttress develops into a gargoyle above a C15 two-light window under pointed head. Gabled south porch with triple-wave-moulded entrance archway and inner round-headed doorway with plank door; stone benches either side. Interior. Nave and chancel in one with a barrel vault to nave and open rafter roof to chancel. Fittings. Several wall tablets in the nave (early C18-early C19); Perpendicular style octagonal font on stem at south door; Jacobean oak pulpit. C15 rood screen with C19 base, early C18 communion rail with turned balusters. First World War Memorial stained glass to chancel east window; north wall window has 2 attached flemish roundels of stained glass. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: ST9256383952

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