Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1955. A Medieval Church.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
errant-beam-grain
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1955
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of All Saints, Church Road, Liddington, SN4 0HB
OS grid reference
SU 206 812
Coordinates
51.52984, -1.70408
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building located on Church Road in Liddington. It features a three-bay nave with a 13th-century north aisle that remains largely unaltered. A south porch was added in the 19th century. The church has a lower two-bay early English chancel and a short three-stage crenellated Perpendicular tower. The windows in the chancel and north aisle are early English and decorated, while the remaining windows are Perpendicular. Two windows on the south side and the north-west window have decorated tracery with two lights and cusped trefoils. The east window is a restored geometrical window with three lights, though its tracery is considered improbable. There is a small pointed priest's door on the south side. The east wall of the former south aisle, which is presumed to have existed, has a culus and a small foiled window positioned above the level of the chancel eaves. A vestry is located to the north. The church underwent significant restoration in the 1880s by C. E. Ponting.

Inside, the north-west window features a foiled rear arch. The north wall contains two segment-pointed tomb recesses with foiled inner orders and bell caps; slabs with a cross and heart are believed to mark the graves of two Abbesses of Shaftesbury who presented the prebendal living here. The Norman font bowl, dating from around 1200, is adorned with bead and zig-zag dressings along the rim. There is a wooden screen from the 19th century in the Perpendicular style. The nave roof includes cusped braces to the collars and cusped wind braces, which are also seen in the porch restoration. Additionally, there is a lychgate with a stone tile roof that serves as a war memorial.

Local climate

Church of All Saints receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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