Description

EASTON GREY MALMESBURY ROAD
ST 88 NE
(south side)
3/20 Parish Church
28.10.59
GV II*

Anglican Parish Church. C15 west tower, remainder 1836 with late
C19 refenestration. Coursed rubble with roughcast to tower,
squared dressed stone to nave and chancel; ashlar buttresses and
copings, stone slate roofs. Nave, chancel, west tower, south
porch. Three stage tower with string courses, a south-east corner
canted stair turret and embattled parapet. West facade has one 2-
light Perpendicular window under pointed head to first stage, a
single opening to second stage and 2-light trefoil-headed bell
opening with slate louvres. Similar bell openings on north and
east faces, single opening on south face. Nave has 2 Perpendicular
style C19 two-cusped-light windows with hoodmoulds to south and 3
similar windows to the north. Similar east window of 3 lights.
Tudor-arched south door with hoodmould to chancel. Gabled south
porch dated 1836 with pointed-arched entrance and 2-leaf wooden
Gothic gates.
Interior. Single chamfer pointed arch to tower. 1836 coved and
ribbed Gothick vault to nave and chancel. Fittings. C13 font at
tower arch: cylindrical pillar with moulded bowl. 1836 box pews
to nave. Royal Coat of Arms: GR/1818, above south door. Two
decalogue boards on south wall, Creed and Paternoster boards on
north wall. Late C17 wall monument to Thomas Hodges on nave north
wall. Restored Jacobean pulpit with tester. Early C19 Gothic
organ. Chancel has 3 fine, if rustic, wall monuments (late C17-
early C18). South porch has an I.C.B.S. board of 1836 recording
repewing and a benefaction board.
(N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: ST8808487642

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17529278

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Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)