Wylye Hall

LONGBRIDGE DEVERILL POTTERS HILL ST 84 SE (north side) 3/199 Wylye Hall

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Anglican parish church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, now artists' studio and dwelling. 1843 by T.H. Wyatt and D. Brandon. Coursed rubble stone, fishscale tiled roof partly replaced by concrete tiles at west end. Plan: nave and chancel under one roof, apsidal east end, north west tower with spire over entrance. Neo-Norman style. Round-arched west doorway has roll-moulded arch on attached shafts with scalloped capitals, double planked door with ornamental hinges. Four-stage tower has angle buttresses, string courses and slender attached shafts to corners, second stage over door has row of five round-arched lancets, third stage has inverted round-arched motif below round-arched window with strapwork-style louvres and billeted hoodmould, to bellstage, dentilled cornice to lead spire with winged beast gargoyles. West end of nave has row of 6 lancets and 2-light round-arched window with attached shafts and hoodmould over, one round-arched window to right. South side has round- arched doorway to basement to left with zig-zag ornament, five round-arched windows and pilaster buttresses to right, the left window with 1980s dropped sill, corbel table with some carved faces. East apse has three round-arched windows, corbel table with good carved heads. North side has five round-arched windows, the righthand with 1980s dropped sill, pilaster buttresses and dentilled cornice. All windows are diamond-leaded with continuous roll moulding and hoodmoulds with carved terminals. Roof has coped verges with cross finial to east end. Interior: Vestibule at west end with stairs to west gallery. Five-bay nave and chancel with 1-bay gallery; pine collar and tie- beam trusses with queen struts and curved bracing, tie-beam with painted biblical inscriptions. Large round-headed arch to apse with attached shafts with stylised leaf capitals. All fittings removed since church made redundant in 1973, currently undergoing conversion (June 1985) to studios and dwelling which has altered a formerly tiered gallery to an enclosed room on one level, nave to be partitioned for studios. The building remains of special architectural interest despite the change of use. Original paid for by the Marchioness of Bath. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975.)

Listing NGR: ST8600242648