St Andrew's Church is in Rollestone Road,

Rollestone Rollestone is a small village and former civil parish on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It is near the River Till. Its nearest town is Amesbury, about away to the east. For local government purposes, Rollestone was added to Shrewton ...

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, England. It is a redundant

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church in the care of the

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. It was declared redundant on 1 July 1993, and was

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in the Trust on 8 February 1995. The church is recorded in the

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as a designated Grade II*

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. St Andrew's was built in the early 13th century. For the early part of its history, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the church was a possession of the

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. It has been suggested that

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was

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at the church in the early 16th century around 1508, however this may be a confusion with another child of the same name. It is constructed in

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and stone in a chequerwork pattern. The church consists of a

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and

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which was given a new roof in the 16th century. The nave is by while the chancel is by . Rebuilding work on the chancel and

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were undertaken in 1845. The church has two large

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windows. The

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is 17th century. The

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dating from the 13th century and has a 17th-century cover. The oak benches were brought from the redundant church of St Catherine's at

Haydon, Dorset Haydon is a village and civil parish north of Dorchester, in the Dorset district, in the county of Dorset, England. In 2001 the parish had a population of 44. The parish touches Castleton, Caundle Marsh, Folke, Goathill, North Wootton and P ...

in 1981. Rollestone became part of the

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

Shrewton Shrewton is a village and civil parish on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, around west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. It lies on the A360 road between Stonehenge and Tilshead. It is close to the source of the River Till, which flows ...

in the early 20th century. The parish now includes

St Mary's Church, Maddington St Mary's Church in the Maddington, Wiltshire, Maddington area of Shrewton, Wiltshire, in the west of England, was built in the late 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* Listed ...

as well.

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