Section Of Churchyard Wall At East End Of Churchyard Of St Swithun'S With Built In Fragments And Two Seats is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1983. Monument.

Section Of Churchyard Wall At East End Of Churchyard Of St Swithun'S With Built In Fragments And Two Seats

WRENN ID
dark-belfry-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1983
Type
Monument
Source
Historic England listing

Description

ST 7866-7966 9/51

BATHFORD C.P. CHURCH STREET (South-east side) Section of churchyard wall at east end of churchyard of St. Swithun's with built-in fragments and two seats.

G.V. II

Churchyard wall, including fragments of Romanesque carving and 2 ashlar seats. The wall is circa 1870 but the fragments are C12th and were found when the old chancel arch was demolished in 1870. Rubble walls; ashlar seats and hoods; freestone carving. To left 2 plain ashlar seats, in recesses and under stone hoods on brackets. To right: a shallow, plain piscina with a segmental head. Under a flat stone hood on brackets are the Romanesque fragments; consisting of a much mutilated figure of an ?angel (or possibly a bishop - Swithin) flanked by 2 engaged columns with Chevron and bead decoration and coarse cushion-type capitals; fragments of a decorated round arch with dogtooth moulding.

Listing NGR: ST7890566572

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