Christchurch

BULKINGTON BULKINGTON VILLAGE ST 95 NW (north side) 7/96 Christchurch 11.9.68 GV II

Anglican parish church. 1860 by T. Cundy. Coursed rubble stone, pantiled roof with coped verges and cross finials. Nave and chancel with west bellcote over entrance. Planked west door in moulded surround with attached shafts, moulded string course carried over as hoodmould, six-point star-shaped window over. Steeply gabled ashlar bellcote with pointed opening. South side of nave has four pointed 2-light windows with C14-style geometric tracery, buttresses with offsets, north side has three 2-light windows, lean-to vestry with shouldered doorway and stack to east. Chancel has two 2-light windows to south and north side, 3-light window to east end, flush flanking buttresses. Interior: entrance lobby at west end. Nave has 4-bay deep arch- braced collar truss roof on stone corbels, exposed rafters with chamfered soffits, polychrome tiled floor. Plain chamfered pointed chancel arch with painted Biblical inscription, open screen. Planked chancel ceiling, polychrome tiled floor. Fittings: original C19 nave and chancel seating, wooden polygonal pulpit, octagonal stone font on pedestal. Stone prayer boards flanking altar, 1724 benefaction board on west wall of nave; gift of Joan White. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: ST9404458393