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Church of the Assumption and St Mary

A Grade II Listed Building in Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1616 / 51°9'41"N

Longitude: -2.1903 / 2°11'25"W

OS Eastings: 386787

OS Northings: 140275

OS Grid: ST867402

Mapcode National: GBR 1VR.51P

Mapcode Global: VH97V.Z2FC

Plus Code: 9C3V5R65+JV

Entry Name: Church of the Assumption and St Mary

Listing Date: 6 September 1982

Last Amended: 1 July 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1364334

English Heritage Legacy ID: 313410

ID on this website: 101364334

Location: Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire, BA12

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Longbridge Deverill

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: The Deverills and Horningsham

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description


ST 84 SE LONGBRIDGE DEVERILL HILL DEVERILL (east side) Church of The Assumption and St Mary 3/189 (formerly listed as the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) 6.9.82

GV II

Anglican parish church, now redundant. 1843 rebuilding by Chapman and Sons. Dressed limestone, Welsh slate roof, ashlar bellcote. Plan: nave, chancel, west entrance and bellcote. Pre- archaeololgical Gothic style. West end has pointed chamfered doorway with planked door and hoodmould, lancet over with hoodmould, diagonal butresses, coped verge. Gabled bellcote with one pointed opening. South side of nave has three chamfered pointed windows with hoodmoulds chancel has two pointed windows with hoodmoulds, butresses with offsets. East end has diagonal butresses and pointed window with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds. North side has similar windows as south; all windows diamond-leaded. Dentilled eaves cornices, coped verges with kneelers and cross finials. Interior has 3-bay nave and 2-bay chancel; plain chamfered pointed chancel arch. Vestibule and stairs to gallery at west end. Plain plastered walls, tie-beam trusses. All fittings removed since church made redundant in 1980's, including Ludlow C16 chest tomb now in Bath chapel at Church of St Peter and St Paul, Church Street (q.v.). Some wall tablets retained at time of survey (June 1985); in chancel an oval tablet with carved drapery and crest to Rachel Coker died 1699 and a classical marble tablet with urn to William Morse died 1793, Gothic-style tablet to Mary Clifford died 1793, in nave. Acquired for conversion to dwelling, June 1985. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975).

Listing NGR: ST8678740275

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