Church Of St Mary

ST 92 SE ALVEDISTON ALVEDISTON VILLAGE (north side)

6/10 Church of St. Mary

6.1.66

GV II*

Anglican parish church. C17, restoration 1866 by T. H. Wyatt. Dressed limestone, tiled roofs. Consists of nave, chancel, north and south transepts, north organ chamber and west tower, south porch. C19 lean-to porch with chamfered pointed doorway. C17 square-headed window over porch. South transept has diagonal buttresses, 2-light Perpendicular-style window with foliated terminals to hoodmould, coped verge, east side has C19 2-light square-headed window. South side of chancel has lancet and C19 lean-to vestry with shouldered chamfered doorway and lancet. East end has three stepped lancets with continuous hoodmould with foliated terminals. North organ chamber has 3 lancets and a trefoil. North transept has 3-light Perpendicular-style window with hoodmould. North side of nave has 2-light C19 square-headed window with hoodmould. All roof verges are coped, cross finials. C17, 3-stage west tower has diagonal buttresses, hollow-chamfered square-headed windows to second and third stages of north side, west side has 2-light C19 pointed window to first stage, single square-headed window to second stage and 2-light round-arched window to bell-stage, south side has similar windows and three- sided stair turret, battlemented parapet with pinnacles. Interior: Chamfered pointed doorway with ornamented C19 door. Four-bay nave has arch-braced collar truss roof, stone floors. Double-chamfered arch on tassel-carved corbels to tower, chamfered Tudor-arched doorway to tower stairs, C12 font bowl on cylindrical base at base of tower. C19 round-arch on half-shafts to north transept, pointed arch with continuous moulding to south transept, both transepts with exposed wagon roofs. Restored hollow and double-ogee chamfered chancel arch on C19 foliated corbels. 3-bay arch-braced collar chancel roof, polychrome tiled floor, pointed door to vestry and lancet to right, now on interior wall. C19 piscina on north wall. Open traceried wooden partition between north-east chapel and chancel. 1860's pews, pulpit, choir stalls. Good unsigned glass of 1881 in west window. A good collection of C17 and C18 wall tablets in south transept; slate and marble tablet with Ionic columns, open segmental pediment and fine lettering to John Wyndham of Norrington (q.v.), died 1668, marble with composite pilasters, broken segmental pediment and cupids to Mrs. Wadham Wyndham died 1704, marble with urn and rococo cartouche to John Wyndham died 1724, but by Rysbrack 1746. In north transept a marble with shafts by F. Brown of Salisbury to Thomas King, died 1787, of Samways (q.v.). Recumbent late C14 knight, possibly John Gawen, with angels and dog in niche in wall of south transept. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975.)

Listing NGR: ST9767823948