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Riverside Road, SALISBURY, SP1 1QP

Cottages at the junction of Riverside Road, Duck Lane and The Green.

C18 thatched cottage on Church Road; listed by Historic England (Grade II): http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1181765&resourceID=5

Volunteers gather for a day at the Laverstock Church Discovery Project, "now in its third year, and this summer a team of local volunteers will be undertaking an archaeological excavation of the medieval foundations of St Andrew’s Church" http://www.winchester.ac.uk/?page=10949 . See also Image

There have been 3 or 4 churches on this site. May be a Saxon church, then a Norman church, which was destroyed in 1410. The third church was demolished in the 19th century and this Victorian church dates from 1858. It includes some remnants of its predecessor.

This church of 1858 was designed by T.H. Wyatt, cost £2,353, and used parts of the old church Image that were of architectural or historic value, including glass, parts of the porch and memorials. The west and south west windows now contain fragments of 13th century grisaille (greenish gray) glass from Salisbury Cathedral. This had been removed by James Wyatt in 1788, broken up and thrown into the city ditches. It was painstakingly collected by Canon Stanley Baker, vicar of Laverstock, who placed some of it in Laverstock church in 1933. He is buried in the churchyard here. The parish registers from 1726, other than those in current use, are held in the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office.

The previous parish church, in the churchyard of Image The ruins comprise stones showing where the foundations are, and a short section of wall. https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1355734 (end of listing). The building was pulled down in 1857.

In 1410 a fire at night destryoyed the Norman church and the priest's house as well as nearby houses. The church and priest's house were rebuilt following an appeal by the Bishop. This church survived for over 4 centuries but in 1853 it was said to be 'very damp and ruinous and the walls and roof are pronounced wholly insecure'. It was said that there was accommodation for 128 adults and 28 children, mainly in the galleries. At that time there was still an Early English chancel and a 13th century doorway with traces of Norman work. The church was demolished and all that remains is part of a buttress and some foundations in the churchyard to the west of the present church.

Another view of Image from the churchyard, where an archaeological dig is taking place - see Image Full architectural details of the church are at http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=319482&mode=adv .

In the grounds of St. Andrew's: Image