Church of St Margaret of Antioch
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1285744
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1285744
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH
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 MARGARET OF ANTIOCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corsley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 82878 46733
Details
CORSLEY CORSLEY VILLAGE ST 84 NW (north side) 7/68 Church of St Margaret of Antioch 11.9.68 GV II Anglican parish church. 1833 by John Leachman, on site of Medieval chapel of ease, restored 1891 by F.W. Hunt. Coursed rubble stone, Welsh slate roof. Chancel and nave with gallery under one roof, west tower over entrance. Central double ribbed west doors in Tudor-arched surround with square hoodmould, flanking Tudor-arched doors with dripstones to lean-to vestibules. Four-stage Perpendicular-style tower has diagonal buttresses, second stage has 3-light Perpendicular-style windows with hoodmould, oculi to north and south, circular clock face to west side of third stage and 2- light louvred windows to bellstage, cornice to battlemented parapet. South side of tower has chamfered lancet to vestibule to left, nave and chancel to right have four tall recessed lancets with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds, buttresses with offsets between. Roof verges with saddleback coping on large kneelers. East end has diagonal buttresses, 3-light east window. North side has four tall lancets as south side. Interior: Side entrances into vestibules with staircases to gallery; stick balusters and turned newels. West gallery on four cast-iron columns, front with cusped panels and Royal Arms of George III. Roof over nave and chancel of very shallow pitch with rib panels. East end has Tudor-arched panel around window with attached shafts and stencilled decoration, reredos with prayer boards. Early C18 hexagonal pulpit with inlaid panels and C20 steps. Mid C19 stone octagonal font with traceried panels below gallery. 1889 pews and choir stalls on dais at east end. Stained glass in east window of 1908 by H.J. Salisbury, 1960s glass in south west window by Hugh Powell. Some monuments from earlier church; slate and stone tablet on south wall to Thomas Aylesbury rector died 1724, large classical marble on east wall to Nathaniel Barton died 1828, several marbles signed Chapman of Frome, for example to John Carpenter died 1812. Wooden benefactions boards also retained; in main entrance dated 1688 and on south wall dated 1634. Six C18 bells cast by Cockey of Frome rehung in this church. (P.H. Gough, The Storey of Corsley and its Church, 1966; N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)
Listing NGR: ST8287846733
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313706
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gough, P H, The Story of Corsley and its Church, (1966)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
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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