page_title: Pewsey
section_title: Parish church
hierarchical_section_title: Pewsey / Churches / Parish church
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of St John the Baptist in Pewsey
context_page_description: Pewsey is a large village and civil parish at the centre of the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, about 6 miles south of Marlborough and 71 miles west of London. It is within reach of the M4 motorway and the A303 and is served by Pewsey railway station on the London to Taunton line.
  The parish includes these small settlements:
  Kepnal – east of the village, south of the Burbage road
  Pewsey Wharf – north, where the A345 crosses the Kennet and Avon canal
  Sharcott – west, by the Avon; marked on some maps as East Sharcott as distinct from West Sharcott, a short distance downstream in Manningford parish
  Southcott – close to the southeast of the village.
context_section_description: The parish church of St John the Baptist stands next to the main road in the south of the village and is built in flint and sarsen with limestone dressings.
  A church at Pewsey was recorded in Domesday Book of 1086. The present building has work from the late 12th or early 13th centuries in the four-bay arcades, on foundations of large sarsens; Pevsner suggests the arches were cut through the walls of an earlier building. The plain font bowl is also from the 12th century. The chancel was rebuilt in the late 13th or early 14th, the clerestory added in the late 14th or early 15th, and the ashlar west tower added in the 16th.
  In 1861 G.E. Street largely rebuilt the chancel and added the south chapel, reusing early windows from the chancel, and restoration in 1889-90 by C.E. Ponting included the addition of the north porch.
  The tower has six bells, the oldest cast in 1620 by Purdue of Salisbury; two others from the 18th century are by Rudhall of Gloucester. On the outside of the tower's east wall hangs a sanctus bell cast by James Burrough of Devizes in 1754.
  The church was recorded as Grade I listed in 1964. Today the church is central to the Vale of Pewsey Team, which includes many rural parishes around Pewsey.
caption: St John the Baptist
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