Church of St Thomas A Becket
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364255
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas A Becket
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364255
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas A Becket
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET
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 THOMAS A BECKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Coulston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 95258 53956
Details
EAST COULSTON EAST COULSTON VILLAGE ST 95 SE (south side) 6/132 Church of St Thomas a Becket 11.9.68 II Anglican parish church. C12, C14, C17, restored 1868 by Richard Gane of Trowbridge. Rubble stone and brick, Welsh slate roof. Nave with west doorway, north vestry, north transept and chancel. West end of nave has C19 Tudor-arched doorway with double doors, string course over to 3-light mullioned and transomed window, probably C17, brick gable above, diagonal buttresses. Single bell hung on west gable with gabled canopy over. South side of nave has blocked C12 doorway with crocketed capitals and missing shafts, blank tympanum and roll-moulded round arch, buttresses with offsets either side, 2-light C19 mullioned casement to right. Chancel with lower roofline has two C19 geometric-style windows with hoodmoulds, 3-light C19 geometric east window, coped verge with cross finial, north side has one C19 two-light geometric window, blocked pointed opening. C14 north vestry has square-headed light to east, reset cusped window head, diagonal buttresses to north with 3-light C19 mullioned casement in larger, partly blocked opening. Small gable vestry to right has 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement and diagonal buttress. Interior: Nave has C19 2 1/2 bay roof on stone corbels, strengthened 1935, stone floors. Pointed late Medieval doorway to C19 vestry, possibly former entrance. North transept with wide continuously chamfered pointed arch, with traces of painted decoration on east jamb, plastered barrel vaulted ceiling, roll-moulded pointed piscina on south wall. C19 chancel arch with attached shafts and keel moulding, set in C19 wall with quatrefoil decoration, C19 chancel roof partly concealed behind inserted boarded ceiling, roll-moulded pointed piscina on south wall retained, 1728 marble floor. Fittings: 1860s stained glass in east window, brass plaque by south window of chancel records 1868 restoration. Pews from Colerne, Church of St John the Baptist. C12 cylindrical stone font with simple blind arcading. Grey and white marble wall tablet with segmental pediment on north wall of chancel to Jacobus (sic) Meredith died 1746, brass on floor to James Meredith, rector died 1712. Brasses on south wall of nave to Elizabeth Godolphin died 1667 and to Thomas Lambe died 1741. A south transept was removed in 1842. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965)
Listing NGR: ST9525853956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313770
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1965)
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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