Details
ST 92 NE SUTTON MANDEVILLE SUTTON MANDEVILLE VILLAGE
(north side)
3/130 Church of All Saints
6.1.66
GV II*
Anglican parish church. C13, C14, restored 1862 by T.B.Miles of
Salisbury. Uncoursed dressed limestone, tiled roof. Plan:
nave, chancel, north aisle and north transept, west tower, south
porch. Gabled south porch has double-chamfered pointed doorway,
coped verge with saddlestone. Nave to either side of porch has 2-
light C14 square-headed window with ogee lights and hoodmoulds,
buttresses with offsets, rainwater head dated 1862. Chancel has
pointed priest's door and 1 cusped lancet either side, diagonal
buttresses to east end, restored east window has 3 lancet lights to
pointed window with hoodmould, north side of chancel has 2 lancets.
Small vestry attached to north side of chancel has pair of cusped
lancets. North transept has early C14 three-light pointed window
with reticulated tracery and hoodmould. North aisle has 2-light
C14-style square-headed window with ogee lights and hoodmould,
cusped lancet to right. Three-stage C15 west tower has diagonal
buttresses with offsets, string courses and offset bellstage, west
doorway has hollow-chamfered pointed arch, second stage has arrow
loops with Tudor-arched light to west face, bellstage has 2-light
pointed Perpendicular windows to all faces, moulded parapet with
corner pinnacles.
Interior: C19 double-chamfered inner doorway. Nave has scissor-
rafter roof, tiled floor. C19 north aisle has 2 ogee and chamfered
pointed arches to low arcade on cylindrical pier and half-cone
corbels. Pointed doorway to west tower. Double-chamfered C19 arch
to north transept, on octagonal pilasters. Fine C13 pointed
double chamfered chancel arch on triple shafts with moulded
capitals, hoodmould with foliated terminals. Three-bay chancel
has deep arch-braced roof on stone corbels, partly concealed by
plaster ceiling, chancel restored 1850. C19 pulpit reuses a
finely-carved early C17 panel. C19 pews, communion rail and
cylindrical font, at west end. Against west wall is stone tomb
lid, carved with primitive relief of Virgin and Child, possibly
C12. Limestone and marble wall tablet with fluted pilasters, frieze
with paterae and broken pediment with urn, in chancel to Samuel
Bracher died 1830; oval marble tablet with urn finial to Rev Henry
Fricker died 1792. In nave are early C19 marbles to King family.
Good late C19 stained glass in east window depicting the
Crucifixion and Resurrection, window on south side of nave has
naturalistic floral painting and painted roundels with portraits of
Sarah and Nora Walter, died 1890 and 1935 respectively. (N.
Pevsner, The Buildings of England; Wiltshire, 1975.)
Listing NGR: ST9859528854