Church of St Martin

CHURCH OF ST MARTIN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1250374
Date first listed:
27-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
Church of St Martin
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1250374
Date first listed:
27-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
Church of St Martin
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ebbesborne Wake
National Grid Reference:
SU 01827 25084

Details

SU 02 NW EBBESBOURNE WAKE FIFIELD BAVANT (south side)

4/121 Church of St. Martin

GV II*

Anglican parish church. C13, C15, C17. Flint and limestone chequers, tiled roof with coped verges. Consists of nave and chancel under one roof, bellcote over west door. Chamfered plinth, hollow-chamfered west doorway with stops, double planked doors, 2-light square-headed C16 window over with cusped lights. South side has 3-light C17 recessed hollow-chamfered mullioned window, blocked Tudor-arched chamfered priest's door to right. East end has C15 pointed Perpendicular window with 2 cusped lights and hoodmould with carved head terminals, cross finial. North side has one small lancet. West bellcote is timbered and tile- hung with square pyramidal roof; probably late C19. Interior has stone and herringbone wood floor. Three-bay braced collar-rafter roof with 2 tie-beam trusses with struts to principals. Fine C12 cylindrical stone font at west end; moulded base and scalloped bowl with oak cover; probably C17. Very small, unaltered church in picturesque setting in the fields of a shrunken village site. (N. Pevsner, Buildings of England; Wiltshire, 1975.)

Listing NGR: SU0182725084

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Legacy System number:
320347
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)

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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.

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