Church Of St Barnabas is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. Church.

Church Of St Barnabas

WRENN ID
frozen-pediment-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Country
England
Date first listed
17 February 1970
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Barnabas is an Anglican parish church built in 1885 by J.P. Seddon. It is constructed from rock-faced snecked Swindon stone, with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The church features a lead-covered stair tower and a sanctus bellcote. It has a nave and aisles, along with a short chancel that includes side chambers. There is a south-west porch beneath the lower two storeys of an incomplete tower, and an opposite north-west porch. The exterior showcases paired lancets set between ashlar-dressed pilasters, with clerestory lancets that continue as a blind arcade along the chancel. The east end of the chancel has triple lancets beneath a continuous hood, and the porch features an Early English style doorway. The west end has four lancets.

Inside, the church has an arcade of five bays, with an additional bay leading into the chancel and a half-bay at the west. The moulded arches rest on quatrefoil columns. The clerestory is supported by alternating columns and clusters on a wall string, which holds up a coved hammerbeam boarded vault. The chancel contains canvas-based wall paintings created between 1946 and 1948 by Rev. John Perret, as well as a trefoiled sedilia, piscina, and a priest's door. An octagonal limestone pulpit is supported by grey stone columns with an arcade. The font at the west end of the nave features a dog-toothed bowl surrounded by a trefoiled arcade. The aisles include west end lancets with stained glass by Morris & Co. from around 1918.

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