The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St John the Baptist and St Helen (medieval)
Parish church
Wroughton is a village about three miles S of Swindon. The church lies to the W of the village, in the hamlet of Elcombe. A dressed stone building, its chancel and aisled and clerestoried nave are datable to a 14th and 15thc remodelling. Its Romanesque N arcade was replaced by the present structure in 1846, when the church was restored by Thomas Henry Wyatt and several 12thc elements, such as the N arcade, were removed; these features are illustrated by a group of watercolours made by John Buckler in 1810. Further restorations were carried out in 1852, in the 1880s, and again in 1905. The only surviving Romanesque sculpture is found on the N and S doorways of the nave.