Church Of St Mary

CORSLEY TEMPLE ST 84 SW (south side) 10/92 Church of St Mary 11.9.68 GV II Anglican chapel of ease. 1902-03 by W.H. Stanley of Trowbridge. Dressed limestone, tiled roof with coped verges and cross finials. Chancel, nave, north porch, south vestry and organ chamber, east bellcote. Arts and Crafts Gothic. Gabled porch has diagonal raking buttresses, hollow-chamfered pointed doorway with hoodmould and foliage-carved spandrels, 3-light leaded east windows. North side of nave has two 3-light windows with depressed arched heads and cusped lights, cast-iron rainwater goods at swept eaves. Chancel has two 3-light Perpendicular-style windows, string course to plain blocking course, raking buttresses to all sides, east end has 2-light Perpendicular-style window either side of buttress with crocketed image niche, carried up to octagonal turret with pierced stone louvres and griffin gargoyles, short recessed spire. South side has 3-light Perpendicular-style window. Double-gabled vestry has two 2-light ogee-cusped square-headed windows and ashlar stack, ogee-headed planked door to west side. South side of nave has three 3-light windows with depressed arched heads and cusped lights, west end has 3-light Perpendicular style window, wooden gabled bellcote on brackets to gable. Interior retains original fittings. Walls lined with red brick with white pointing, moulded string course over windows. Four-bay nave roof with arched collar trusses on stone corbels, half-bays have plainer collar trusses, both types of truss with ogee V struts, exposed rafters and purlins. Polychrome tiled floors, especially good in chancel. Chamfered pointed chancel arch on free-standing compound piers. Chancel has 4-bay scissor truss roof, deeply chamfered segmental-headed archways lead off to vestry and organ chambers, the former filled with panelled wooden screen, both with exposed rafter roofs. Cusped piscina on south wall of chancel, wide pointed arched panel on east wall, string course with rosettes above altar. Octagonal pulpit with traceried panels. Octagonal stone font with green marble pedestal. Largely paid for by Mary Barton of Corsley House (q.v.), died 1878. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: ST8251944811