Parish Church of All Saints

Parish Church of All Saints, Churchyard

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1180510
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:: Parish Church of All Saints
Statutory Address:: Parish Church of All Saints, Churchyard

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1180510
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:: Parish Church of All Saints
Statutory Address 1:: Parish Church of All Saints, Churchyard

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Parish Church of All Saints, Churchyard

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Westbury
National Grid Reference:: ST 87375 51430

Details

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ST 8751 SW 4/15

WESTBURY CHUCHYARD Parish Church of All Saints

29.12.50.

GV I

Probably circa 1437 [of similarity of mouldings in North aisle chantry chapel of that date to those of rest of Church VCH]. Renewed, restored 1847 and recently stabilized. Ashlar built, re-using earlier masonry in parts. Large cruciform Church with rectangular central tower and short, low transepts. Embattled and clerestoried nave of four bays. South and West porches. Small vestry between South porch and transept (1847).

Two stage crenellated tower with octagonal stair turret to North-East. Steep pitched chancel roof with stone tiles. West front has small porch, panelled and vaulted and with seats; dividing buttresses to wall and embattled verges; West window of elaborate perpendicular style tracery (1847, T.M. Wyatt) . Fragments of corbels and a large face (possibly from a Rood; locally said to represent King Alfred) over South transept window. Two storey South porch with handsome vault, partly cusped and with Tudor emblems in cells; above entrance is sundial dated 1821. Pointed doorway. Except for the clerestory, the seven light thrice transomed East window and the North chapel windows, the tracery is in transitional Decorated - Perpendicular style.

Inside the tall pointed arcade has clustered piers and the upper walls buttressed by arches over aisles. In the South transept is a tall columned monument to Sir James Ley aisles. and his wife and a good bust of William Phipps (Governor of Bombay d. 1747) by Sir Robert Taylor. The North chancel chapel has good commemorative plaques of the C18 and early C19. The Church is set in an enclosed churchyard and except for the tower is hidden from surrounding streets. The effect of space in the churchyard is greatly increased by the gardens of Westbury House, Edward Street, to the South-West and of the Vicarage to the North-East, both of which have some the fine trees. A number of good C18 altar tombs in churchyard.

Listing NGR: ST8737651436

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Legacy System number:: 313093
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.