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St Michael and All Angels, Urchfont, Wiltshire

Location
(51°18′56″N, 1°56′33″W)
Urchfont
SU 041 574
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Wiltshire
now Wiltshire
  • Allan Brodie
24 April 2004

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Feature Sets
Description

Urchfont is a village in the SW of the Vale of Pewsey and north of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, about 3 12 miles SE of Devizes. The church is on the N side of the High Street, and was built in the 14thc. and 15thc. In the chancel there is a net vault derived from Bristol Cathedral. The building was restored in 1864 and 1900. The only Norman carving is a length of shaft with a moulded base.

History

Urchfont was held by the Nunnery of St Mary, Winchester (Nunnaminster) before and after the Conquest. The manor was assessed at 30 hides, of which 6 wre in demesne, and there were 3 mills, 64 acres of meadow, pasture 1 league and a half by half a league, and a similar area of woodland. Nunnaminster retained the manor until the Dissolution.

Features

Loose Sculpture

Bibliography

Historic England Listed Building, English Heritage Legacy ID: 312093

Historic England listing 1364609

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, New Haven and London, 2nd ed. rev. B. Cherry 1975, 544-545.

Victoria County History, Wiltshire, X (1975), 173-190