Yelford : SS Nicholas and Swithun

The small medieval church is reputed to be the sixth smallest Parish Church in the country. The present church was rebuilt c.1500 when the village was revived after the Black Death.

About this church

The building, only c. 52 ft. long and 16 ft. wide in the interior, comprises a nave and chancel of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and a south porch of ashlar; the roofs are stone slated. A carved relief with beaded arcs reset in the east wall of the porch may be 12th-century or earlier. The nave, chancel, and porch were rebuilt in the late 15th century or early 16th, after a period of decay caused by depopulation. The open bellcote was built over the west gable in the late 19th century. The church, in ‘sad disrepair within’ in 1869, was restored and re-seated by 1873; the roofs were reslated in the 1950s

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