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17 December 2005 SRW

Dying light

Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire, UK

From the Swallowcliffe website:
Of the style of the present church, the accepted authority on English architecture, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner,
wrote that the architect (he named Scott) used a style that was "unashamedly Norman, and at the same time equally unashamedly
mixing up his Norman with non-Norman motifs". However, about 1840, the architectural firm designing the new church wrote that the old church was
"a very curious specimen of Norman architecture". Perhaps the new church was also a copy in style.

The architects for the new church were Scott and Moffatt.
Sir Gilbert Scott (he was knighted in 1872) was architecturally involved in nearly five hundred churches
and thirty-nine cathedrals and minsters; and produced the Albert Memorial for Queen Victoria, after the death of her husband.

Moffatt was far from famous, and, after Scott terminated the partnership in 1845,
was perhaps not quite respectable, especially in Victorian terms. Scott might be seen as an obvious choice, even to Pevsner,
but it is most probable that Moffatt was the architect who tried to oblige the villagers.

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