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St Peter and St Paul, Heytesbury, Wiltshire

Location
(51°10′54″N, 2°6′36″W)
Heytesbury
ST 924 425
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Wiltshire
now Wiltshire
medieval Salisbury
now Salisbury
  • Allan Brodie

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Description

This church has a choir with 13thc. arcades but one pier has a trumpet scallop capital, part of which seems to date from the late 12thc. The nave dates from the 15thc. The church was restored in 1864-7 by Butterfield.

History

In Domesday Book Alfward the priest held the church as well as three hides of land. This was then was given to Salisbury Cathedral by Henry I about 1115, together with the church of Godalming (Surrey) and lands lying beside the two churches, to form a prebend. Shortly after this the church became collegiate, with the head of the college the canon who held the prebend at the Cathedral.

Features

Interior Features

Arcades

Chancel

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The lost font was similar to a group of surviving font in other churches in the southern part of Wiltshire, e.g. Amesbury, Dinton, Downton, Ebbesbourne Wake, Kingston Deverill (removed 1847), Maiden Bradley, Rushall, Steeple Langford,Stratfordsub Castle.

Bibliography

J. Buckler, Unpublished album of drawings. Devizes Museum, vol. 8, pl. 15.

N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, Buildings of England: Wiltshire. Harmondsworth 1975, 2nd edition, 266-67.

C. and F. Thorn (eds) Domesday Book, Chichester 1979, 65b, 23e.