Church Of St Swithin

PATNEY VILLAGE CENTRE SU 05 NE 10/178 Church of St Swithin 19.3.62 II

Anglican parish church. 1876-8 by H. Weaver of Devizes incorporating medieval work. Malmstone with limestone dressings, formerly rendered, and tiled roofs. Nave with south porch, and chancel. Vestry on north side of nave. Two light trefoil-headed windows, 3-light east and west windows, some walling and window surrounds medieval, probably C13. Grooved stones reused as putlog holes. South porch door of 2 chamfered orders with hoodmould. Wood steeple central to nave, with square louvred bell chamber and octagonal turret carrying a lead covered spire. Crosses to gables. Interior: Walls plastered. Nave roof of 6 bays with billet moulded tie beams on large wall brackets supporting the steeple. Chancel arch with Bath stone engaged half-columns and carved stiff leaf capitals in grey limestone, perhaps also medieval. Chancel has south priest's door and facetted boarded vault. C13 piscina with nodding ogee hood, shelf and spirelets. Medieval 2-seat sedilia. Fittings: Font, C19, a tub with running guilloche around base, a short column and C13 round spurred base. Pulpit, C17, panelled, with finely worked necking and cornice, raised on C19 stone base. Altar rail of C17 turned balusters. Six C19 iron lamp brackets attached to nave pews. Monuments: In chancel: Four wall tablets, C19 and C20, to Rev. Daniel Lancaperan(?), Rev. John Cutler, died 1833, by Harrison of Devizes, Eliza Cookson, daughter of a druggist of Ludgate Hill, died 1755, and Rev. Henry Simcox, died 1873, the last a brass plate on slate. In nave, 4 wall monuments. North side: White marble on grey, a tablet with pilasters and urn above cornice against a grey field, to Thomas Lewis of Wedhampton, died 1814, and wife. South side: from east, simple wall tablet, marble, to Jane Patrick, died 1851. Narrow limestone aedicule with fluted columns and broken ogee pediment and central torch, putto and painted panel between fluted pilasters, to Robert Hayward of Marden, died 1722. Good incised lettering. (b) Narrow aedicule, limestone. Raised and painted panel between fluted pilasters. Cornice and swept terminal carrying pineapple/acorn. Gadrooned base with apron on single bracket, to Robert Amor, died 1740. Also 2 brasses, one recording 10 burials between 1786 and 1891, and a second to Frederick Butler, died 1900 in South African War. Painted metal creed over door. Furniture: Riddel posts behind altar. Two C17 arm chairs. North window glass by Kempe. (Pevsner: Buildings of England: Wiltshire)

Listing NGR: SU0715558401