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
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1956
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of St Swithun's, Church Street, Bathford
- OS grid reference
- ST 788 666
- Coordinates
- 51.39816, -2.30605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St. Swithun's has Romanesque origins and was restored by F. Preedy of London and Worcester. The west tower was built between 1879 and 1880, while the north aisle and porch were added in 1856. The south aisle and nave were constructed between 1870 and 1872, along with the chancel and north and south chancel chapels. The church is built of coursed, squared rubble with freestone dressings and has a slate roof.
The west tower features three stages, a pierced parapet with finials, angle buttresses, and two-light lancet openings in the bell chamber. The aisles have panelled bracery with foiled heads. The nave consists of three bays with Early English style arcades, and the chancel has two bays.
Inside, there is a 13th-century octagonal font with a scalloped underside and a finely carved Jacobean pulpit, which is raised on a stone base by Preedy from 1870 and features a Biblical text on its frieze. There are also monuments, including two lettered tablets in the north wall of the chancel for Philip Ellis (1661) and Thomas Hendy (1676), and in the south wall for Marie Herd (1674) and Elizabeth Phillips (1759) by John Ford of Bath.
Local climate
Parish Church of St Swithun's receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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