CHURCH OF ST ALFRED THE GREAT OF THE WEST SAXON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200634
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1968
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ALFRED THE GREAT OF THE WEST SAXON
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ALFRED THE GREAT OF THE WEST SAXON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200634
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1968
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ALFRED THE GREAT OF THE WEST SAXON
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ALFRED THE GREAT OF THE WEST SAXON

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ALFRED THE GREAT OF THE WEST SAXON

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kingston Deverill
National Grid Reference:: ST 85583 37354

Details

KINGSTON DEVERILL MONKTON DEVERILL VILLAGE ST 83 NE (south side) 6/172 Church of St. Alfred the Great 11.9.68 of the West Saxon.

GV II

Anglican parish church, now redundant. C14 tower, rest rebuilt 1845 by T. H. Wyatt. Rubble stone, tiled roof. Consists of nave and chancel under one roof, west tower and south porch. Gabled south porch with double-chamfered pointed doorway, coped verge. South side of nave has three 2-light Perpendicular-style windows with hoodmoulds. East end has diagonal buttresses and 3-light pointed Perpendicular-style window. North side of nave has two 2- light Perpendicular-style windows and one cusped lancet to left, to left is lean-to vestry with 2-light C16-style window with hoodmould and chamfered ashlar stack, chancel has one cusped lancet. Two- stage west tower has diagonal buttresses, 3-light Perpendicular- style west window, moulded string course to bellstage; one ogee- cusped light, plain parapet with saddleback coping. Interior cleared during 1970s. Four-bay nave and chancel roof has arch-braced collar and tie-beam trusses on stone corbels. Double- chamfered tower arch, beam to ceiling of first stage has date and initials; 17. IBB 02. Only fittings comprise a few remaining C19 pews, limestone reredos with blind arcading, 1703 bell on floor of chancel. Church declared redundant 1970, empty at time of survey (July 1985).

Listing NGR: ST8558337354

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Legacy System number:: 313393
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.