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St Swithun

Hinton Parva

Wiltshire

Church Row, Church of St Swithun (Formerly listed as: Church of St Swithin) 26.1.55 G.V. I Small Norman church recast in Perpendicular style

Architectural Features

Late C15 3-light square-headed foiled windows to clerestory and aisles, labels with shaped stops

South doorway C12 with billet hoodmould

INTERIOR: Two-bay round arched arcade with circa 1170s scallop caps and responds to south (squat earlier looking piers). North arcade C13

Interesting Norman font: tub on stem, upper band of triangular-headed arcading, then a band of saltire crosses, next a band of pre-Urnes-type interlace and a scroll pattern with an animal

1637 pulpit and reading desk

There is a good mid-C18 example in the north-west angle of the church with scroll brackets in rebates, panels with carved drapery and oval panels with angels in the corners.

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