Description

DONHEAD ST. MARY CHURCH HILL ST 92 SW (east side)

7/41 Church of St. Mary 6.1.66 GV I

Anglican parish church. Late C12, C13, C14, C15, C19 restoration. Dressed limestone, tiled roof. Plan: nave with aisles, chancel with side chapels, west tower and south porch. C14 gabled porch with diagonal buttresses and raked sides, Tudor-arched ovolo- moulded doorway, coped verge with cross finial to stone roof. South aisle has blocking course and 2-light C15 window with cusped lights and hoodmould either side of porch. Nave clerestory has five C13 lancets with hoodmoulds, coped verge with sanctus cross. South chapel has chamfered pointed priest's door and two 3-light C15 windows with cusped lights and hoodmoulds, blocking course with saddleback coping. Chancel has one 2-light C14 window to south and three C19 stepped lancets to east, diagonal buttresses and coped verge, large stone tablet to Jeremiah Bower died 1759 set against north wall. North chapel has 3-light Perpendicular window and tablet to Elizabeth Bower died 1791 on east wall, north side has two 2-light Perpendicular windows and blocking course. North aisle has central blocked hollow-chamfered doorway with hoodmould, 2- light C15 cusped window either side, blocking course. Nave clerestory has five C13 lancets. All chapel and aisle windows are square-headed. Three-stage west tower mostly C15 with angle buttresses and string courses, double chamfered pointed west doorway with 3-light Perpendicular windows with pierced wooden louvres and hoodmoulds, moulded string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet with eight crocketed pinnacles. Interior: porch has stone benches to sides, pointed barrel vaulted roof with ovolo-moulded stone ribs, cyma-moulded inner doorway with hoodmould and C19 double doors. Nave has 5-bay C19 wagon roof with moulded tie beams, polychrome tiled floor. Tall chamfered tower arch with hollow-moulded upper arch on C19 corbels, blocked lancet over, wooden newel stairs to belfry, late C19 Perpendicular-style screen filling arch. Clerestory windows have hollow-chamfered rere-arches. Fine late C12 three-bay south arcade with double chamfered arches on octagonal abaci and cylindrical piers with multi-scalloped or stylised leaf capitals, blocked Tudor-arched west doorway in south aisle. North arcade of three double chamfered arches on cylindrical piers with plain chamfered capitals and roll-moulded bases, aisles have restored late Medieval lean-to roofs with carved bosses and chamfered ribs. Wide double hollow- chamfered pointed chancel arch on octagonal responds with wind- blown leaf capitals, chancel has C13-style east windows with rer- arches on marble shafts and C19 wooden pointed barrel-vaulted roof, 2-bay chapel arcades with hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded piers and moulded arches, roll-moulded pointed transitional archways between chapels and aisles, C19 pitched roofs. Good 1880s glass in east windows, rest of glass probably by Kempe, 1860s. Restored Jacobean pulpit with carved panels, C12 black marble and stone drum font with arcading and carved 'woven' frieze, C19 pews. Pedestal piscina in south chapel with Dunston memorial glass of 1984. Good collection of C18 and C19 wall tablets including stone and slate tablet in south aisle to John Jeffries died 1711 with Composite pilasters to segmental pediment, several classical tablets by Osmond of Sarum such as to William Grove of Ferne died 1855 and to Charles Wyndham of Donhead Hall died 1846, large marble to Col. William Burlton died 1870 by Bedford of London. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: ST9066824440

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