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In rubble stone with dressed limestone, the building has a simple plan, with a four-bay nave and chancel under one roof; the 14th-century south porch has its original roof timbers. There is no tower, instead a niche in the west gable houses two bells. One of the bells, thought to date from the 13th
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was born here to a local farmer, but he took to painting and returned to have a studio here at an old
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rented and lived at Fitz House, Teffont Magna. He went to look at it after a friend had written to him of its
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lived in the village in the 1930s and 1940s, at his parents' house, King's
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was recorded for the church, and in that year it was named St Edward's, for
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987:"Relationships and changes Teffont Magna CP/Ch through time"
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was released in an edition of seventy prints in 1988.
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Sigestan. As Shaftesbury Abbey owned the
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35:Signpost and cottage, Teffont Magna
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181:Sovereign state
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213:Dialling code
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1167:A Church Near You
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730:Siegfried Sassoon
696:unitary authority
692:Wiltshire Council
651:for St Mary's at
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678:Governance
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500:After the
492:Warminster
472:King Edgar
314:51°05′24″N
157:South West
700:Salisbury
644:in 1966.
554:p. curacy
550:Salisbury
456:Æthelbald
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364:Wiltshire
358:, in the
317:2°01′01″W
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251:Ambulance
232:Wiltshire
195:Salisbury
191:Post town
139:Wiltshire
121:Wiltshire
68:Wiltshire
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452:charters
433:hillfort
413:Chilmark
382:Location
368:chapelry
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587:etching
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298:England
173:England
167:Country
103:Teffont
1242:p. 255
1226:p. 187
1019:10 May
971:10 May
672:Dinton
653:Dinton
597:Church
562:Wilton
546:Dinton
417:Hindon
402:Wilton
372:Dinton
360:Nadder
227:Police
149:Region
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1067:8 May
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