Church of St Anne
CHURCH OF ST ANNE, BOWDEN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363962
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Anne
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE, BOWDEN HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363962
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Anne
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE, BOWDEN HILL
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 ANNE, BOWDEN HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lacock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93758 67932
Details
LACOCK BOWDEN HILL ST 96 NW (south side) 3/19 Church of St Anne GV II
Anglican parish church, 1856-7 by S.B. Gabriel of Bristol for Capt J.N. Gladstone of Bowden Park. Squared ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings, stone slate roofs and coped gables. Nave, chancel and north porch in Early English style with Romanesque style north east tower, gabled with shingled pyramid roof. Three- window nave with flat buttresses, heavy string course, moulded eaves and 2-light plate-traceried windows. North porch has battered plinth flush on west side with west wall. West window of 2-light centre with single lights each side flanked by blank windows, to give row of seven pointed arches, taller in centre. Shafting between arches is missing. Gable vesica. Chancel has heavy corbel table, 3 lancets to south, one to north, clasping flat buttresses and east end 3 pointed lights in 5-arch arcade. Foiled circle in gable. Three-stage north east tower with clasping flat buttresses to bottom stage, ashlar coping between stages, second stage with recessed walling, corbel table and small arched light each side. The gabled top stage is heavily ornate with 3 stepped lights each side, the shafting missing and Evangelist symbols as gargoyles at each corner. Coped gables. Interior is ashlar lined with much finely lettered inscription. Nave has good windbraced 6-bay roof, moulded chancel arch with leaf capitals, stone pulpit and font. Chancel has 3-bay roof with thin windbracing, encaustic tile floor, alabaster reredos over marble dado, Purbeck shafting to windows and moulded north arch to vestry. East window glass signed Warrington 1857. North wall brass to Mrs Gladstone (d 1862). Two nave stained glass windows of c1863 to Captain and Mrs Gladstone, west window of 1887. Various brass plaques on south wall to Merewether family of Bowden Hill House. (N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975 120)
Listing NGR: ST9375867932
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315452
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 120
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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