Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, NUNTON VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1181836
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, NUNTON VILLAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1181836
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, NUNTON VILLAGE
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 ANDREW, NUNTON VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Odstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 15932 26044
Details
SU 12 NE ODSTOCK NUNTON VILLAGE
(west side)
5/149 Church of St. Andrew
23/3/60
II*
Anglican church. C12 and C13, rebuilt 1854-5 by T. H. Wyatt.
Knapped flint with limestone dressings and some brick banding,
tiled roof with coped verges and finials. Consists of rebuilt 3-
bay nave, south aisle, chancel and Lady Chapel and south porch and
south west tower of 1854, with north vestry and organ chamber
remodelled in 1933. Gabled south porch has inner and outer
pointed doorways with hood mould and foliated terminals. South
aisle has one pair of cusped Iancets and a single cusped lancet
with stone crucifix and 1914-18 war memorial between. Lady Chapel
has pair of C13 cusped lancets and pair of trefoiled lancets, east
window of chapel is pair of cusped lancets. East window of chancel
is 3-light Geometric style with hood mould and foliated terminals.
Vestry has 2-light C16 style window to east and 3-light C16 style
window, chamfered square-headed door and single light to north
side, west window is single cusped lancet. North side of nave has
three 2-light Geometric style windows, all with hood moulds and
foliated terminals. West window of nave is 2-light in Geometric
style with hood mould and foliated terminals, multifoil circular
window over. 3-stage tower has pointed west door with hood mould
and foliated terminals, lancet to 2nd stage and 2-light pointed
unglazed window with plate tracery to north, west and south sides
of 3rd stage, battlement parapet.
Interior: 3-bay nave has arch-braced collar truss roof on stone
corbels. South arcade consists of two double-chamfered pointed
arches on cylindrical piers, of C13, south aisle has collar rafter
roof. Chancel arch is double chamfered and springs from square
piers with unusual palm-carved capitals, possibly C17, chancel has
braced collar-rafter roof. 2-bay Lady Chapel has two chamfered
pointed arches on square piers of late C12 leading to chancel, and
barrel-vaulted roof, plain piscina on south wall. Two double-
chamfered pointed arches lead to vestry of 1933 from chancel.
Fittings include original Victorian pews. Some fine wall tablets
include slate memorial to Charles Hartshorne died 1644, large white
marble memorial with tWo classical female figures to John Batt of
New Hall (died 1831) by Sir R. Westmacott on south wall of nave,
and several tablets to Batt family in Lady Chapel and nave such as
one to Martha Batt died 1765 signed by F. Brown of Salisbury.
Late C19 stained glass in Lady Chapel, east window is signed by
Christopher Webb, 1937. The church has never been a parish
church, but was a Medieval chapel of ease.
(N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975).
Listing NGR: SU1593226044
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319530
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/215741
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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