St Mary the Virgin, Westwood
St Mary the Virgin, Westwood
St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I parish church on Farleigh Lane, Lower Westwood, Wiltshire, in the Diocese of Salisbury, standing beside Westwood Manor.
- Location
- Westwood, Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Wiltshire
- City / town
- Westwood
- Address
- Farleigh Lane, Westwood, Wiltshire, BA15 2AF
- Postcode
- BA15 2AF
- Built
- 15th century; restored 1840
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Mary
- Diocese
- Salisbury
- Parish
- Westwood
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular
- Materials
- Limestone ashlar and dressed limestone; stone slate roof with coped verges
- Opening hours
- Normally open in conjunction with National Trust manor.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
- Website
- http://htboa.org/
Overview
Historic England records an Anglican parish church of the fifteenth century, restored in 1840, in limestone ashlar and dressed limestone under a stone slate roof. The plan is a west tower, nave with north chapel and chancel. The three-stage Perpendicular west tower has diagonal buttresses, a Tudor-arched west doorway, battlemented traceried parapet, crocketed pinnacles and an octagonal south-east stair turret with a crocketed domed roof. Pevsner called the elaborately decorated tower splendid. The fifteenth-century north chapel has Perpendicular windows and a battlemented parapet.
The 1840 restoration rebuilt the south side of the chancel while retaining a trefoil-headed door. A reused stone over a north chancel door may be late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century; a chapelry of Bradford-on-Avon at Westwood is recorded in 1299. The nave has a late eighteenth-century coved plaster ceiling. Fifteenth-century stained glass survives in the chancel, including an east window showing Christ crucified on a lily. The church is normally opened in conjunction with the National Trust manor.