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All Saints, Crudwell, All Saints, Wiltshire

Location
(51°38′5″N, 2°3′53″W)
Crudwell, All Saints
ST 9560 9290
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Wiltshire
now Wiltshire
medieval Old Sarum
now Bristol
  • Allan Brodie
01 May 2004

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Description

The proportions of the nave suggest an Anglo-Saxon origin while the N arcade of the nave was inserted c1200 or in the early 13thc. The chancel was added in the early 13thc. and the S nave arcade probably a century later.

History

In the Domesday Book, 'the lord of St Mary of Malmesbury .... holds Crudwell' (Creduelle), an association that continued throughout the medieval period.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Interior Features

Arcades

Nave
Comments/Opinions

The church was restored in 1868 and 1889.

Bibliography

Historic England listed building 1363888. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1363888 accessed 4 April 2016.

N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, Buildings of England. Wiltshire, Harmondsworth, 1975 (repr. 1985), 202-203.

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

VCH, Wiltshire, Vol. XIV, 51-65.

T.E. Vernon, (undated) Notes on the Parish Church of All Saints, Crudwell, Wilts Melksham