Abbey Church of St Mary, St Sansom and St Branwalader

A Grade I Listed Building in Milton Abbas, Dorset

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Abbey Church of St Mary, St Sansom and St Branwalader, Milton Abbas
Entrance and tower of Abbey Church, 2014
St Mary: Decorated church mainly built from early c14 until the Dissolution; the nave was never built; mid c15 tower
St Mary: c14 south transept & slightly earlier choir aisle & clerestory (c.1325); seven bays with four flying buttresses; pierced quatrefoil parapet, stepped lancet windows
St Mary: main body of choir; first two bays with stone screen with arches on Purbeck shafts, other bays alternate between arches & blank walls
St Mary: Presbytery reredos (c.1492); three tiers of niches & canopies; restored 1798
St Mary: south transept with c14 Decorated window of reticulated tracery
St Mary: north transept with late Perpendicular window (c.1500)
St Mary: north presbytery aisle; lierne vaulting with bosses
St Mary: monument to John Tregonwell of Milton Abbas, d.1565; altar tomb of Purbeck marble; canopy resting on spiral columns
St Mary: John Tregonwell of Milton Abbas, d.1565; kneeling before a prayer desk; armour covered with a tabard
St Mary: shield & crest from the brass of John Tregonwell of Milton Abbas, d.1565
St Mary: memorial to John Tregonwell, d.1680; marble tablet with shield-of-arms, in stone surround
St Mary: memorial to Mary (Tregonwell) Bancks, d.1703; female figure lying on altar tomb between Corinthian columns
St Mary: inscription from the memorial to Mary (Tregonwell) Bancks, d.1703
St Mary: white marble memorial to Caroline (Sackville) Damer, d.1775, wife of Lord Milton
St Mary: Victorian font (1860) of two angels, one holding a cross, the other a palm branch
St Mary: c15 brass inscription to John Artur, monk
St Mary: collection of carved fragments displayed in the south aisle
Abbey at Milton Abbas, Dorset