The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Salisbury (now)
Hospital, former
Wilton is a civil parish about 3 miles NW of Salisbury standing at confluence of the rivers Wylye and Nadder. Incorporated into the buildings around St John’s Square are the remains of a hospital founded in the late 12thc. Although several alterations and restorations were carried out from the 16thc, some remains of the medieval structures have survived. These includes a circular pier with what may be the remains of a scalloped capital.
Parish church
The nave and chancel of the church, or more likely just their N walls, date from the 12th century. The N door of the nave and the plain font are also Romanesque. A window of c1300 has been inserted into the E end of N wall of nave and the rest of the church dates predominantly from c1300 and much from the 19th century.
Parish church
The church has a Perpendicular west tower but the rest of the exterior dates from the restoration and reconstruction in 1854 by T.H. Wyatt. The church guidebook suggests that the whole church, except the tower was demolished and rebuilt. However, as Pevsner suggests, the details of the nave arcade, and a number of fragments survived from the 12thc.
Parish church
The present building consists of a chancel and S chapel, rebuilt 1907-13; a 13th-c N transept and nave, with a late 13th-c W porch; a S transept rebuilt in the 15thc and 16thc; and a central tower, heightened in the 15thc.
Parts of the arches of the tower crossing may be 12thc in origin.
Parish church
Although the church has a good collection of Anglo-Saxon sculpture and some Norman fragments, none of the fabric appears to date from before the 13thc, which is essentially an E.E. chancel with many Perpendicular additions.
Parish church
Ludgershall is 16 miles NE of Salisbury and the church lies to the N of the village. The neighbouring castle had to be built before 1103 since King Henry I visited it, and the church of St James was erected in the following decades. The building consists of a chancel, a nave with N and S chapels, a S porch, and a W tower. The chancel was rebuilt in the early 13thc and transepts were added in the 14thc. The W tower fell down before 1662 and was rebuilt in 1675. The nave and W tower are Norman in date with a small Norman window and a blocked N door.
Parish church
Only part of the 14th-century church survived the Victorian building campaign. The new 19th-century church contains two items of Romanesque date; the bowl of the font and the capitals used to create the lectern.
Parish church
Brixton Deverill is a small village 4 miles S of Warminster. The church has a 13thc chancel arch and a short W tower of the 13thc and 15thc. The only Romanesque carving is the font that was brought from Imber Church when that village became a military training ground in the Second World War.
Parish church
Broad Hinton is a small village about 5 miles SW of Swindon. The church dates from the 13thc with a 15thc W tower and a chancel that was rebuilt in 1879. It contains two carved, Norman stones set into the E wall of the nave.
Parish church
The present building consists of a chancel rebuilt in neo-Norman style in 1874; a S aisle to chancel built 1902; a nave, rebuilt c.1834; a S aisle to nave and S porch of 1902, and a N aisle of 1815.
The re-used nave S door and the font are all that survive of the 12thc church.