St Mary with St Ethelbert, Luckington

The Church of Saint Mary and Saint Ethelbert is a Grade I parish church on Church Road in Luckington, Wiltshire, in the Diocese of Bristol and the Gauzebrook group ministry.

Overview

Historic England records an Anglican parish church of about 1200 to the fifteenth century, restored with the chancel rebuilt in 1872 by A. W. Blomfield (the listing also dates that rebuild 1892). The fabric is rubble stone with stone slate roofs and coped gables. The plan is nave, south aisle, north and south porches, a four-stage north tower, chancel with north vestry and a south-east chapel. Nave and aisle have fifteenth-century fenestration. The north porch is a plain eighteenth-century gable around a moulded pointed fourteenth-century door. The south-east chapel is an 1872 reconstruction of a thirteenth-century original, with paired lancets and stepped east lancets. The 1872 chancel is ashlar; a flat-roofed vestry was added in 1917.

The lower stages of the north tower are thirteenth century, with paired lancets, plate-traceried bell-openings and a corbel table; the top stage is fifteenth-century Perpendicular with battlements and truncated pinnacles. Inside, a much-restored three-bay arcade of about 1200 has circular piers, spurred bases and trumpet-scallop capitals. Nave and aisle have fifteenth-century arch-braced collar-rafter roofs. Painted texts of 1663 survive on the north and south walls. The south-east chapel retains a restored thirteenth-century two-bay arcade with Purbeck marble shafts. Wiltshire Community History notes a large Norman font. Fittings include late eighteenth-century Fitzherbert monuments, one signed T. Paty and Sons.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1199767
• Wiltshire Community History: Church of St Mary and St Ethelbert