Little Hampden Church
LITTLE HAMPDEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1125857
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Little Hampden Church
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE HAMPDEN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1125857
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Little Hampden Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE HAMPDEN
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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:
- LITTLE HAMPDEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great and Little Hampden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 86052 03552
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/05/2015
SP 80 SE
6/52
GREAT AND LITTLE HAMPDEN,
LITTLE HAMPDEN,
Little Hampden Church
(Formerly listed as Church)
21.6.55
I
Parish church. C12, altered C15, with C15 N. porch. Much restored C18 and
C19. Render over flint with brick and stone dressings, tiled roofs. Nave,
chancel, N. porch; small vestry at W. end of nave added 1932. W. end of
nave has brick band course and 2-light window with Y tracery. 2 similar
C18 windows to S., one in a blocked doorway. N. side has fine 2-storey C15
gabled porch, timber-framed with curved cross braces and rendered infill.
Single louvred openings in upper storey; door in 2-centred chamfered wooden
arch. Chancel has late C19 stone dressings: chamfered plinth, quoins,
coped gable, shaped kneeler. C19 cusped lancets to N. and S.; Cl9 2-light
traceried window to E.; narrow transomed lancet externally rebuilt C20,
to right of N.side. Interior. Nave has good remains of early C13-C15 wall
paintings: earliest series shows figures of saints in trefoil niches with
scroll friezes above and below along E. wall, figures of St Peter and St Paul
on N. wall, and tall elegant figure of St Christopher to left of N. door;
painted head and hands of another figure above later chancel arch; other C14
and C15 figures include another St Christopher, St Michael weighing the Virgin
and the Devil, a figure tortured by devils, and a dragon. C15-C16 nave roof
with cambered tie beams and tall crown posts. Unmoulded 2-centred chancel
arch. Piscina with band of carved foliage below label. Small carved stone
relief figure in S. wall of chancel. Large stone altar slab with consecration
crosses, C19 altar rails. Late C19 and C20 glass. Memorial tablet to Martha
Hill 1731. Dedication of church unknown.
RCHM I p. 162 Mon. 2.
Listing NGR: SP8604803550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46322
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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