Detail from Apse windows (12th century), Church of St Mary & St Nicholas, Wilton, Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Detail from Apse windows (13th century), Church of St Mary & St Nicholas, Wilton, Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Church of St Mary & St Nicholas, Wilton, Salisbury

Address

Church of St Mary & St Nicholas, West St, Wilton, Salisbury SP2 0DL

Recommended by

Steve Clare MBE, ACR, FMGP (10)

Highlight

Central apse windows

Artist, maker and date

Unknown - French artists, 12th and 13th centuries

Reason for highlighting

In this lovely Italianate church in Wilton has a truly amazing collection of European stained glass in the great tradition of the early Ile de France mosaic tradition. Stained glass for the purist and enthusiast alike.

A must see collection.

Other comments

Early glass elsewhere in the church includes the North Apse (German, Swiss and Flemish glass of the fifteenth & sixtenth centuries, and English glass of the late fourteenth century) and the South Apse (English, Swiss and French or Flemish glass of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries).

The church was completed in 1845, and what remains of the old parish church of St Mary nearby is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The old chancel has been walled off as a small chapel and includes a window of 1952 by Harry Stammers.

Artist/maker notes

Glass from Rouen, St. Denis, St Germain des Pres, St. Chapelle

Highlighted artists at this location

Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque glaziers (56)

All artists mentioned at this location

Stammers, Harry (6)

Highlighted dates at this location

12th century, 13th century, 14th century, 15th century, 16th century (Go to date search)