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Parish Church

A Grade II* Listed Building in Easton Grey, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5875 / 51°35'15"N

Longitude: -2.1734 / 2°10'24"W

OS Eastings: 388084

OS Northings: 187642

OS Grid: ST880876

Mapcode National: GBR 1PK.HB1

Mapcode Global: VH95R.8CWC

Plus Code: 9C3VHRQG+2M

Entry Name: Parish Church

Listing Date: 28 October 1959

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1023199

English Heritage Legacy ID: 318017

ID on this website: 101023199

Location: Easton Grey Church, Easton Grey, Wiltshire, SN16

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Easton Grey

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Easton Grey

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description


EASTON GREY MALMESBURY ROAD
ST 88 NE
(south side)
3/20 Parish Church
28.10.59
GV II*

Anglican Parish Church. C15 west tower, remainder 1836 with late
C19 refenestration. Coursed rubble with roughcast to tower,
squared dressed stone to nave and chancel; ashlar buttresses and
copings, stone slate roofs. Nave, chancel, west tower, south
porch. Three stage tower with string courses, a south-east corner
canted stair turret and embattled parapet. West facade has one 2-
light Perpendicular window under pointed head to first stage, a
single opening to second stage and 2-light trefoil-headed bell
opening with slate louvres. Similar bell openings on north and
east faces, single opening on south face. Nave has 2 Perpendicular
style C19 two-cusped-light windows with hoodmoulds to south and 3
similar windows to the north. Similar east window of 3 lights.
Tudor-arched south door with hoodmould to chancel. Gabled south
porch dated 1836 with pointed-arched entrance and 2-leaf wooden
Gothic gates.
Interior. Single chamfer pointed arch to tower. 1836 coved and
ribbed Gothick vault to nave and chancel. Fittings. C13 font at
tower arch: cylindrical pillar with moulded bowl. 1836 box pews
to nave. Royal Coat of Arms: GR/1818, above south door. Two
decalogue boards on south wall, Creed and Paternoster boards on
north wall. Late C17 wall monument to Thomas Hodges on nave north
wall. Restored Jacobean pulpit with tester. Early C19 Gothic
organ. Chancel has 3 fine, if rustic, wall monuments (late C17-
early C18). South porch has an I.C.B.S. board of 1836 recording
repewing and a benefaction board.
(N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975)


Listing NGR: ST8808487642

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