Church of St Dunstan

Church of St Dunstan, Thurleigh Road, Bolnhurst, MK44 2ET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1114777
Date first listed:: 13-Jul-1964
List Entry Name:: Church of St Dunstan
Statutory Address:: Church of St Dunstan, Thurleigh Road, Bolnhurst, MK44 2ET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1114777
Date first listed:: 13-Jul-1964
List Entry Name:: Church of St Dunstan
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Dunstan, Thurleigh Road, Bolnhurst, MK44 2ET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of St Dunstan, Thurleigh Road, Bolnhurst, MK44 2ET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bedford (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bolnhurst and Keysoe
National Grid Reference:: TL 08076 58689

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 February 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TL 05NE 6/1

BOLNHURST AND KEYSOE BOLNHURST THURLEIGH ROAD Church of St Dunstan

(Formerly listed as Church of St Dunstan, CHURCH LANE)

13.7.64

II* Parish church. C13 origins, C14 details, mainly C15. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Chancel, north vestry, nave, south porch, west tower. Chancel of C13 origins but reworked has south door with pointed head and C15 lowside window, north east and south east windows probably C16, and C19 east window. C19 north vestry. Mid C14 pointed chancel arch. C15 nave: blocked doorway to north wall, flanked by cinquefoiled three-light windows with tracery and embattled transoms at half height; two similar windows and one in C14 style to south wall, but all with C19 tracery. C15 south porch, outer doorway with two-centred head. C15 four-stage tower has diagonal buttresses and pairs of two-light windows to top stage. West doorway surmounted by restored three-light window with C15 tracery. Embattled parapets to tower and nave.

Interior: octagonal font to nave; remains of painting of St.Christopher to nave north wall; 1707 and 1727 marble wall monuments to nave north east corner; screen C15 but much restored; some C16 pewing; fragment of C15 glass to nave north east window showing the Virgin; 1853 east window initialled by W. Holland of Warwick; organ case by Pugin (Pevsner p.58) C19 chancel roof, nave roof restored C17.

Listing NGR: TL0807658689

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 36201
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 58

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.