All Saints Church - Liddington, Wiltshire, UK
N 51° 31.785 W 001° 42.245
30U E 589892 N 5709533
All Saints church is in the small village of Liddington to the south east of Swindon. The church started life in the 13th century and is a part of the Church of England. The church sits in the centre of a well maintained churchyard.
Waymark Code: WMK10K
Location: Southern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/27/2014
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The church is a Grade I listed building with the entry at the English Heritage website telling us:
Three bay nave with C13 north aisle little altered. South porch added C19. Lower 2 bay early English chancel and short 3 stage crenellated Perpendicular tower. The windows of the chancel and north aisle are early English and decorated, the rest Perpendicular - 2 windows on south side and the north-west window have Decorated tracery of 2 lights and cusped trefoil. East window a restored geometrical window of 3 lights but improbable tracery. Small pointed priest's door to south. East wall of former south aisle (assuming there was one) has culus and small foiled window above level of chancel eaves. Vestry to north. All this heavily restored 1880s by C. E. Ponting. Interior: north-west window has foiled rear arch. North wall has 2 segment pointed tomb recesses with foiled inner orders and bell caps; slabs with cross and heart said to mark graves of 2 Abbesses of Shaftesbury (who presented to the prebendal living here). Circa 1200 Norman font-bowl has bead and zig-zag dressings to rim. Wooden screen, C19 in Perpendicular style. Nave roof has cusped braces to collars and cusped windbraces, see also in porch - restoration. Lychgate with stone tile roof as war memorial.
An interesting point is that the village name is spelt "Liddington" but the name on the church noticeboard is spelt "Lyddington".