Church of St Bartholomew and All Saints
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW AND ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1183969
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew and All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW AND ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1183969
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew and All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW AND ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
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 BARTHOLOMEW AND ALL SAINTS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Royal Wootton Bassett
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 06612 82516
Details
SU 08 SE WOOTTON BASSETT HIGH STREET (north west side)
11/123 Church of St Bartholomew and All Saints 17.1.55
II*
Anglican parish church. C14, C15 and much restored 1869 - 71 by G. E. Street. Coursed rubble limestone, stone slate roof. Two parallel naves and independently roofed north aisle. South porch. Chancel and Lady chapel, organ chamber, north vestry and west tower. Exterior: nave 3-light Perpendicular windows and parapet with many large gargoyles, all C15. Chancel 3-light window c1300 with intersecting tracery and matching windows of C19. South priest's door. Porch, C15, 2 storey, 2-light square headed window to parvise and sundial in gable. Tower: 3 stages, upper stages by Street, paired lancets, crenellated parapet and rounded stair tower on north. Slated pitched roof. Interior: 5-bay arcade, circular columns and capitals. South arcade C13 probably heightened, with chamfered west respond. Arches have hollow chamfers. North arcade similar but C19, when aisle added. Roofs: C16 over naves, panelled and painted, north aisle C19 arch-braced principal rafters. Chancel and Lady chapel, barrel and trussed rafter roofs, Porch has lierne quadripartite vault on corbels with skewed shields. Small stoup. Chancel encaustic tiles and choir stalls. Pulpit: C15, timber, buttressed with tracery. Altered C19 plinth and brass rail to steps. Font: C19 diapered tub, by Street, carved by Earp, on clustered short columns. Lectern: Brass, 1876. Rood stair to south nave arch and open timber screen between Lady chapel and chancel. Low stone screen to chancel. Reredos: 5 gabled bays, limestone, by Street, with marble relief of Adoration by Earp of Lambeth. Glass: East window of chancel, and of Lady Chapel 1871 by Hardman, depicting Tree of Jesse and Prophets. Organ: Vowles of Bristol 1871. In north aisle benefaction boards, Charles Pynner 1619 and two of c1680, round headed, recording gifts inter alia of crimson damask, the clock, and the Free School. In nave, west wall triptych of commandments. Brass chandelier 1782. Houselling bench c1700; 2 no stools also c 1700. C18 rectangular table with 22 twisted baluster legs. Monuments in base of tower: 8 marble wall tablets HENRY WILSON 1812, draped urn. MARY SMITH, 1813, pedimented. WILLIAM IND, 1825, urn. THOMAS MAYRISS 1825; ELIZABETH FREAK, 1841 by Reeves of Bath; Francis King, 1848, by Franklin; CHARLES MORETON HUNT 1855; and BARTHOLEMEW HORSELL 1851, Gothic. Sculpture: in parvise, fragment C10-Cll, winged biting dragon and ?tree of life. (Reference: Pevsner N., Buildings of England, Wiltshire 596-7.)
Listing NGR: SU0661282516
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 316805
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 596-597
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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