Church of St Swithun
CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN, CHURCH ROW, SN4 0DW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1023270
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Swithun
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN, CHURCH ROW, SN4 0DW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1023270
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Swithun
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN, CHURCH ROW, SN4 0DW
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN, CHURCH ROW, SN4 0DW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Swindon (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishopstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 23198 83292
Details
SU 2383,
27/3
BISHOPSTONE,
LITTLE HINTON,
Church Row,
Church of St Swithun
(Formerly listed as: Church of St Swithin)
26.1.55
G.V.
I
Small Norman church recast in Perpendicular style. Three-bay aisled nave with
south porch. Small west tower. Two-bay chancel. Rubble with stone slate roof,
nave roof lead. Late C15 3-light square-headed foiled windows to clerestory
and aisles, labels with shaped stops. Two stage unbuttressed west tower with
pyramidal tiled roof and no west door; Somerset tracery. Gabled south porch
circa 1500, possibly earlier, with moulded square headed surround and a 4-centred
arch, with traceried spandrels. South doorway C12 with billet hoodmould.
Small north door (C19, facing Vicarage). Priest's door to chancel.
INTERIOR: Two-bay round arched arcade with circa 1170s scallop caps and responds
to south (squat earlier looking piers). North arcade C13. Interesting Norman
font: tub on stem, upper band of triangular-headed arcading, then a band of
saltire crosses, next a band of pre-Urnes-type interlace and a scroll pattern
with an animal; band of cable work; lower band of compass-scratched intersecting
circles. Roof: moulded ties with braces from corbels and moulded king posts,
panelled. Victorian box pews. 1637 pulpit and reading desk. Chancel: pointed
circa 1200 chancel arch with stiff leaf-type crocket nook shafts and chamfered
arches. Two-light and quatrefoil chancel windows have rere-arches (but not
in sanctuary). Three-light reticulated (probably C19 restoration) east window.
Memorial to Elizabeth Kete (died 1630), bracketed columns flanking tablet and
supporting entablature.
Small graveyard contains a number of C18 and C19 headstones and tomb chests.
There is a good mid-C18 example in the north-west angle of the church with scroll
brackets in rebates, panels with carved drapery and oval panels with angels
in the corners.
Listing NGR: SU2319583289
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318190
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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