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Christ Church

A Grade II* Listed Building in Tidcombe and Fosbury, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3257 / 51°19'32"N

Longitude: -1.5504 / 1°33'1"W

OS Eastings: 431421

OS Northings: 158609

OS Grid: SU314586

Mapcode National: GBR 5ZS.YMM

Mapcode Global: VHC25.2YP2

Plus Code: 9C3W8CGX+7R

Entry Name: Christ Church

Listing Date: 10 July 1978

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1365505

English Heritage Legacy ID: 310930

Also known as: Christ Church, Fosbury

ID on this website: 101365505

Location: Christ Church, Fosbury, Wiltshire, SN8

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Tidcombe and Fosbury

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Tagged with: Church building

Description


TIDCOMBE AND FOSBURY FOSBURY SU 35 NW 10/206 Christ Church 10.7.78 GV II* Anglican Parish church. 1854-6, by S.S. Teulon. Flint with Bath stone dressings, tiled roof. Nave and chancel in 1 vessel. South- west porch with steeple. North chancel vestry. 6 bays. Entrance under tower; ogee hood with vine leaf crockets, double nook shafts and naturalistic foliage capitals. Tower buttresses gabled. Windows 2-light with varied Decorated tracery and relieving arches of alternating tile and glazed brick. Chancel buttresses gabled. 5-light east window, 4-light west window. Ashlar panel below east end. Tower of 3 stages, bellstage with pierced transennae. Tall machicolated parapet with carved panels. Octagonal stair tower in re-entrant against nave, rises to spirelet engorged with crown. Interior: 6 bay open timber roof, trusses bracketed to wall corbels in nave, hammer beam to 2 trusses of chancel which also have scalloped windbraces. Chancel raised 2 steps. Inscription over windows, these with grisaille glass. Fittings: Font, stone, octagonal, with small bowl. Furniture: Pulpit, reading desk, choir stalls and pews, and communion rail all oak. Altar removed. The church is redundant.

Listing NGR: SU3142158609

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