Description

TF 93 SW BARSHAM WEST BARSHAM
6/26
Church of the
6.3.59 Assumption

II*

Parish church. Flint walls with stone dressings and red pantiled roof. C11 or C12
nave, C20 south porch, and early C14 chancel. C11 or C12 splayed round windows in
nave north wall and over the chancel arch a triangular headed door; the existing
chancel is perhaps an extension of an C11 or C12 sanctuary tower. Norman north door
and nave south window; Norman south door framed by C13 early English arched surround
with shafts, shaft-rings, leaf capitals keel roll and zigzag mouldings. Nave of
2 bays with one curvilinear north and south window and "Y" tracery west window.
Chancel with "Y" tracery south window and 3-light intersected tracery east window.
Interior restored c1938, including new chancel arch and chancel roof; C19 tie beam
roof to nave. C18 font on stem. Nave and chancel benches 1954 by Margaret Tarrent.
East window Ward and Hughes 1893.

Listing NGR: TF9048433674

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556873

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)