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© Helmut Schulenburg
IoE Number:
32213
Location:
PARISH CHURCH OF ST SWITHUN'S, CHURCH STREET (south east side)
BATHFORD, BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Helmut Schulenburg
Date Photographed:
17 April 2007
Date listed:
01 February 1956
Date of last amendment:
01 February 1956
Grade
II
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ST 7866-7966 BATHFORD C.P. CHURCH STREET
(South-east side)
9/44
1.2.56 Parish Church of St.
Swithun's
G.V.
II
Parish Church of St. Swithun's. Romanesque origins: restored by F. Preedy of
London and Worcester; West tower (1879-80); north aisle and porch 1856; south
aisle and nave 1870-72; chancel, north and south chancel chapels. Coursed,
squared rubble with freestone dressings; slate roof. West tower: 3 stages,
pierced parapet with finials, angle buttresses, 2-light lancet openings to bell
chamber. Aisles: panelled bracery with foiled heads. 3-bay nave with Early
English style arcades. 2 bay chancel. Font: C13th, octagonal with scalloped
underside. Pulpit: Jacobean, finely carved with Biblical text on frieze,
raised on stone base by Preedy (1870). Monuments: 2 lettered tablets in north
wall of chancel; Philip Ellis 1661; Thomas Hendy 1676; south wall Marie Herd
1674. Elizabeth Phillips, 1759 by John Ford of Bath.