Parish Church Of St Swithun'S is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1956. Church.

Parish Church Of St Swithun'S

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Country
England
Date first listed
1 February 1956
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

Description

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.

Listing NGR: ST7880566615

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