Great Somerford, Wiltshire

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Location
(51°32′28″N, 2°3′37″W)
Site Location
Great Somerford
National Grid Reference
ST 959 825
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Wiltshire now Wiltshire
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Allan Brodie
Visit Date
26 June 1993

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Feature Sets
Description

On the exterior of this c. 1700 farmhouse there are a number of reused carved fragments of the mid 12thc. In form they are similar to elements that exist at Malmesbury Abbey and they were presumably brought from the Abbey after the Dissolution.

Features

Loose Sculpture

Comments/Opinions

Pevsner simply describes the fragments as "ornamental stonework of unknown provenance. However, the floral motif found on fragments 2-5 is similar to forms found at Malmesbury and Old Sarum.

Bibliography

Historic England listing 1022519

N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, Buildings of England: Wiltshire 2nd edition. Harmondsworth, 1975, 261.

A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 14, Malmesbury Hundred, Victoria County History, London 1991, 200.