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The church has a simple Norman W tower built in rubble with some masonry laid in a herringbone arrangement. This is the only Romanesque fabric that survives in situ but a series of reset fragments in the external walls of the nave and W tower suggest that there was another 12thc. doorway. The body of the church is 19thc.
Ælfric of Melksham held Wilsford in 1086. There was land for 2.5 ploughs, with meadows and pastures. No church is mentioned.
The church was rebulit in 1851 by TH Wyatt.
F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications or England’s Patron Saints, London 1899, III, 307.
Historic England listing 1284143
NMR Report 54618
N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, Buildings of England: Wiltshire. Harmondsworth 1975, 2nd edition, 575-576.
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Churches of South-East Wiltshire London; HMSO 1987, 206-207.
