All Saints, Liddington, Wiltshire

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Location
(51°31′48″N, 1°42′15″W)
Site Location
Liddington
National Grid Reference
SU 206 813
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Wiltshire now Wiltshire
Dedication
medieval All Saints now All Saints
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Allan Brodie
Visit Date
28 Aug 1993

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Feature Sets
Description

This is a small church with a 13thc chancel, a nave of the 14th or 15thc, 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J. Buckler, Unpublished album of drawings.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.

Historic England listing 1299741

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

Victoria County History of Wiltshire, Volume IX, 65-75, esp. 72-74.