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St Saviour, Erlestoke, Wiltshire

Location
(51°17′3″N, 2°3′5″W)
Erlestoke
ST 965 539
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Wiltshire
now Wiltshire
medieval Salisbury
now Salisbury
medieval unknown
now St Saviour
  • Allan Brodie
18 August 1995

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Feature Sets
Description

The church was built on the site of the old church in 1880 by G.E. Street after it had become a parish in 1877. The church contains three short Romanesque columns, kept as fragments at the W end of the new building.

History

In the Middles Ages, Erlestone was a chapelry to the church of Melksham. The village is not mentioned in Domesday, and the church not wealthy enough to be mentioned in the 1292 Taxatio.

Features

Loose Sculpture

Comments/Opinions

Pevsner sees these fragments as proof of an aisled church on the site of 1130-50.

Bibliography

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

A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 7. Victoria County History, London 1953, pp. 82-6, esp. 84-5.