Dinton,
Wiltshire - St Mary Church
13th-14th centuries
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Notes in italics from Wiltshire by Nikolaus Pevsner
Revised by Bridget Cherry (1975)
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A
dignified church with the crossing tower as its centre, essentially Dec
(early 1300s), but with older and younger parts. ... Late C13 transepts.
In the E wall of the S transept a lancet, in that of the N transept three
stepped lancets.
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Then
the Dec style. The nave has a three-light W window of stepped cusped
lancet lights. The crossing has arches of two chamfers dying into the
imposts and a vault with diagonal and ridge ribs. In the corners the signs
of the evangelists. The top of the crossing tower is Perp.
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The
light and airy chancel has a five-light E window with cusped intersecting
tracery and a blank pointed quatrefoil in the gable connected with the
window below as if it were the finial of an ogee arch (on
outside, see middle picture). The N and S windows
are large, of three lights, with reticulated tracery. ... Wagon roof,
ceiled, with bosses.
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Going out
through the back gate to the west of the church, one comes upon a view of
Hyde's House. Parts of the house are pre-Reformation and C16. The front
however is a remodelling of the early C18. Five bays, with a pedimented
three-bay centre. Quoins. Doorway with unfluted Ionic columns, a
pulvinated frieze (i.e. convex profile), and
a pediment. ... Formerly the Rectory House, and the birthplace of Edward
Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon.
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Map
Philipps House, Dinton
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