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St Mary the Virgin, Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire

Location
(51°22′39″N, 1°56′53″W)
Bishops Cannings
SU 037 643
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Wiltshire
now Wiltshire
medieval Salisbury
now Salisbury
  • Allan Brodie
  • John Wand
26 July 1997

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Feature Sets
Description

The church has a large 13thc nave with four bays with pointed, north and south arcades. Although the capitals are trumpet scallops of varying quality, they clearly cannot be classed as Romanesque. The chancel dates from the mid 13thc. The only carving that may date from the 12thc is a crude scallop capital, probably reset, at the south-west corner of the chancel.

History

As recorded in Domesday Book, the majority of the land of Bishop's Cannings (Cainingham) belonged to the bishop of Salisbury, after bishop Osmund in 1091 gave ‘the church of Cannings with the tithes and other things pertaining to it, to the cathedral then newly established at Salisbury’ (VCH VII, 189). No church, but a priest is mentioned in Domesday Survey, holding 2 hides of land. Bishop’s Cannings appears there as a large and prosperous manor, assessed at 70 hides, with 6 mills, 30 acres of meadow, a pasture and woodland (VCH II, 121; VCH VII, 195-6).

Features

Interior Features

Interior Decoration

Miscellaneous
Bibliography

F.K. Annable. The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Bishop's Cannings Bishop's Cannings 1991 Bishop's Cannings

F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications or England’s Patron Saints, London 1899, III, 53.

DCMS Listing Description.

Historic England Listing 1193298

A. Macdonald 'Bishop's Cannings, Historical Memoirs of the Parish' Wilts Arch and Nat Hist 6 1860 129-159

Nikolaus Pevsner, Wiltshire, Buildings of England, Penguin, 1985.

J. Pitt 'Malmesbury Abbey and Late Saxon Parochial Development in Wiltshire' Wilts Arch and Nat Hist 96 2003 77-88

C.E. Ponting. 1882. Lambeth Palace Library ICBS 8783

C.E. Ponting 'Notes on the church of St Mary the Virgin, Bishops Cannings' Wilts Arch and Nat Hist 23 1887 229-244

N.W. Taylor. Some notes on the Parish of Bishop's Cannings Private Press 1973

Victoria County History of Wiltshire, II, 121.

Victoria County History of Wiltshire, VII, 187-97 esp. 192-4.