St John the Baptist, Latton, Wiltshire

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Location
(51°40′11″N, 1°52′0″W)
Site Location
Latton
National Grid Reference
SU 093 968
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Wiltshire now Wiltshire
Dedication
Type of building/monument
Report authors
  • Allan Brodie
  • John Wand
Visit Date
28 August 1993

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Description

The current church consists of a chancel, a nave, N and S transepts, a small S porch and a broad W tower. The lower part of the W tower dates from the 12thc but the upper part is Perpendicular. The transepts date from c1300. The arch into the nave from the tower and the chancel arch both date from the 12thc and there is a late 12thc S door.

History

The Domesday Survey records Latton as held by Regenbald the priest. It was worth £10, with its 2 mills, 200 acres of meadow and a pasture. No church is mentioned.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Interior Features

Arches

Chancel arch/Apse arches
Tower/Transept arches

Loose Sculpture

Comments/Opinions

The chancel was rebuilt twice in the 19thc, in 1858-63 by William Butterfield.

Bibliography

Historic England listing 1284123

Anon. St John the Baptist's Church, Latton Private Press

F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications or England’s Patron Saints, London 1899, III, 176.

J. Buckler, Unpublished album of drawings. Devizes Museum, vol. VIII, plate 65.

N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, Buildings of England: Wiltshire. Harmondsworth 1975, 2nd edition, 293.