Parish Church of St Giles
PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119416
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119416
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST GILES
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 GILES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hooke
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 53547 00167
Details
ST 50 SW HOOKE HOOKE VILLAGE
2/130 Parish Church of 11.11.66 St Giles
GV I
Parish Church. C15 nave. Early C16 south chapel. Chancel rebuilt 1840 (NP). South tower-porch and vestry, 1874. Local rubble and ashlar walls, rock-faced masonry to C19 additions. Clay-tile roofs of fish-scale shape. Stone gable- copings with plain crosses on apices. Chancel, short with diagonal buttresses. East window of three trefoiled lights with tracery in a two-centred head with a label. Nave, with one buttress midway as north. North wall has 2 C15 windows, both of 3 cinquefoiled lights in square heads, western has a label with head-stops. West wall has a C15 doorway with moulded jambs, 4-centred arch in a square head, with a label and head-stops of a bishop and a king, traceried spandrels with paterae. South chapel has 3 windows in south wall of 2 four-centred lights in a square head, with moulded reveals and label. East wall has one of the same. South Tower: 3 stages, divided by strings and with an embattled parapet. Entrance: pointed-arch with label, 2-leaf plank door. 2nd stage has a single trefoiled light. Top stage, 2-light cusped, with panel tracery over. Label returned over. Interior: Chancel-arch, moulded responds and pointed arch, C19. Entrance to south chapel: moulded and 3-centred, with responds, continuous bands of running foliage ornament. On the soffit is a continuous band of quatrefoils enclosing shields; shield at the apex bears the arms of Coleshill impaling Cheyney, for Sir John Coleshill and Elizabeth (Cheyney) his wife. North wall of the chapel has a restored fireplace-recess. The C15 south doorway has chamfered jambs and 2-centred head. Fittings: Font, unusual, elongated hexagonal bowl, set against the wall, the outer faces with panels enclosing 6-pointed figures, or quatrefoiled panels enclosing paterae, C15. Cylindrical stem with moulded capital and base. Niches: North wall of nave, 3-sided canopy with crocketed heads and spine, angel-corbel. East splay of north-west window, carved bracket. Brass: nave north wall to Edmond Semar 1523-4, inscription only.
(RCHM Dorset I, p125(1))
Listing NGR: ST5354700168
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105455
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 125
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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