Parish Church of St Hypolite
PARISH CHURCH OF ST HYPOLITE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119143
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Hypolite
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST HYPOLITE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119143
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Hypolite
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST HYPOLITE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST HYPOLITE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ryme Intrinseca
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58179 10825
Details
RYME INTRINSECA ST 51 SE RYME VILLAGE
1/102 Parish Church of St Hypolite 31.7.61
GV II*
Parish Church. Cl3 nave and chancel. C17 west tower and north porch. Rubble-stone walls, with freestone dressings. Clay-tile roofs with stone slate eaves. Chancel: east wall rebuilt in C17. C17 east window of 3 4-centred and graduated lights, with moulded label. Side walls each have a C13 lancet. Nave, north wall has at the-east end a trefoiled light t lighting the pulpit, C17. 3-light stepped window similar to that in the chancel, C17. 2 light window west of porch, also Cl7. Early C15 north doorway has moulded jambs and 2-centred head. South wall of nave has its easternmost window of two lancet lights, C13. The west tower, early C17, of 3 stages with an embattled parapet and pinnacles at the angles. N.E. stair-turret is also embattled and with a pyramidal roof. The west doorway has chamfered jambs and 4-centred head. The second stage has in the east wall, a window of two round-headed lights. The bell-chamber has, in each wall, a window of two four-centred lights in a square head with a label, these have stone tracery. Interior: chancel and nave are structurally undivided. Segmental plastered roof with tie-beams, compartmented in the chancel. Font: octagonal bowl with concave underside and necking, octagonal stem and concave base, late C15. Two chairs in the chancel, C17. Royal Arms, nave, painted on canvas in frame with segmental head. Above the shield are the initials G.R. and John Williams, Yeovil, 1793. (RCHM Dorset I, p.193 (1))
Listing NGR: ST5817910825
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106120
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 193(1)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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