Former Church of the Holy Rood (Now Redundant)
FORMER CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROOD (NOW REDUNDANT), CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120491
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of the Holy Rood (Now Redundant)
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROOD (NOW REDUNDANT), CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120491
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of the Holy Rood (Now Redundant)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROOD (NOW REDUNDANT), CHURCH LANE
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:
- FORMER CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROOD (NOW REDUNDANT), CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Coombe Keynes
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 84261 84105
Details
SY 8484 14/99 COOMBE KEYNES CHURCH LANE 20.11.59 (East Side)
former Church of the Holy Rood (now Redundant)
II
Redundant church. Tower C13, rest of church rebuilt 1860-61. Architect Thomas Hicks. Stone walls, stone slate roofs with coped gables. Nave, chancel, north porch and west tower. Tower of two stages with pyramidal roof and shallow clasping angle buttresses. Simple lancet windows - those in upper stage with pierced stone panels. South wall of nave has four plain lancet windows, with intermediate buttresses. Chancel has two similar windows. North elevations similar, but with porch replacing one nave window. Porch has pointed arched doorway with lancet window over. Internally, roof of pine, of trussed rafter form, with arch-braced trusses. Some C18 graveslabs in floor. C13 chancel arch - re-set. Most furnishings removed. North wall to churchyard of brick, former boundary with The Old Parsonage. RCHM Monument 1.
Listing NGR: SY8426184105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108558
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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