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Only part of the 14thc. church survived the Victorian building campaign. The new 19thc. church contains two items of Romanesque date; the bowl of the font and the capitals used to create the lectern.
At the time of Domesday Book, West Dean was held by Waleran the Huntsman and it paid tax for 2 hides, as before the Conquest when Godric held it. The value of the estate remained at 60s. No church is mentioned.
The new church was built in the 1860s to designs by Pownall and Young.
J. Buckler, Unpublished album of drawings. Devizes Museum, Volume VIII.
Historic England listing 1135718
N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire. Harmondsworth 1975, 2nd edition, 562.
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Churches of South-East Wiltshire London HMSO 1987, 199.
