Church of All Saints And St Margaret

Heritage listing

Details ENFORD ENFORD HILL SU 15 SW (north side) 5/22 Church of All Saints and St. Margaret 27.5.64 GV I Anglican parish church. C12 and probably earlier, C13, C14, C15 and C18, restored 1825-30 by Benoni White of Devizes and 1892-3 by C.E. Ponting. Banded flint and limestone, slate and lead roofs. Tower of ashlar. Nave with aisles, south porch, chancel and west tower. Nave clerestory and south aisle have 2-light cusped windows with square heads. North aisle, early C14, with independently pitched roof and quatrefoiled tracery, 3-light to east window. C15 tower of 3 stages with stair tower in south west corner rising above crenellated parapet. The spire fell in 1817. Three-light west window and door below. South porch rebuilt after 1817 with horizontal parapet. The inner door early C13 with pointed arch on nook shafts having plain trumpet capitals. Inverted stoup on right of door. Octagonal sacristry on north side of chancel. Interior: Nave walls probably Anglo-Saxon (77cm thick) pierced with C12 round arches on nook shafted piers, the arches with roll mouldings to the arrises. Scalloped capitals. Earlier tall shaft built in to east respond of south arcade. Clerestory on south side only. Four bay flat panelled roof of 1892-3. Chancel arch late C12-early C13; pointed arch on 2 orders of columns with varied scalloped capitals. Chancel, late C13, with bold and plain wall arcade on north side only; tall pointed arches of alternating heights, all with hollow chamfer. Shouldered arch to sacristry and recessed door in adjacent arch. Trefoiled piscina at east end. South side rebuilt in brick and reroofed in 1779; 4 bays with shallow pitched king post trusses. Chamfered stone altar top on wooden base. Sacristry has lancets alternating with cupboards and a conical roof. Eleven enc

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.