Church Of St Barnabas

CRICKLADE ROAD, SU 18 NE SWINDON Gorse Hill 2/59 Church of St. Barnabas 17.2.70 II

Anglican parish church. 1885, by J.P. Seddon. Rock-faced snecked Swindon stone with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Lead covered stair tower and sanctus bellcote. Nave and aisles, short chancel with side chambers. South-west porch under lower 2 storeys of incompleted tower. Opposite north-west porch. Paired lancets between ashlar dressed pilasters, and lancets of clerestory continued as blind arcade along chancel. East triple lancets to chancel under continuous hood. Porch with early English style doorway. 4 lancets to west end. Interior: arcade of 5 bays, with further bay into chancel and half- bay at west. Moulded arches on quatrefoil columns. Clerestory of alternating columns and clusters on wall string supporting coved hammerbeam boarded vault. Chancel with canvas-based wall paintings of 1946-8 by Rev. John Perret. Trefoiled sedilia piscina and priest's door. Octagonal limestone pulpit with arcade on grey stone columns. Font at west end of nave; dog-toothed bowl with surrounding trefoiled arcade. Aisles have west end lancets with glass by Morris & Co. c1918.

Listing NGR: SU1551585971