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All Saints, Liddington, Wiltshire

Location
(51°31′48″N, 1°42′15″W)
Liddington
SU 206 813
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Wiltshire
now Wiltshire
medieval Old Sarum
now Bristol
  • Allan Brodie
28 Aug 1993

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Feature Sets
Description

This is a small church with a 13th-century chancel, a nave of the 14th or 15th century, and a Perpendicular W tower. The bowl of the font is the only Romanesque carving that has survived.

History

At the time of the Domesday Survey, Liddington belonged to the church of Shaftesbury. It had 2 mills, meadow and a pasture. Its value increased from £18 in TRE to £22 in 1086. No church is mentioned.

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The church was restored in the 1880s.

Bibliography

F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications or England’s Patron Saints, London 1899, III, 182.

J. Buckler, Unpublished album of drawings. Devizes Museum, vol. VIII, plate 28.

DCMS Listing Description.

N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, Buildings of England: Wiltshire. Harmondsworth 1975, 2nd edition, 295.

Victoria County History of Wiltshire, Volume IX, 65-75, esp. 72-4.