Church of St Rumbold
CHURCH OF ST RUMBOLD, PENTRIDGE VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153676
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Rumbold
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST RUMBOLD, PENTRIDGE VILLAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153676
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Rumbold
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST RUMBOLD, PENTRIDGE VILLAGE
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:
- CHURCH OF ST RUMBOLD, PENTRIDGE VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 03316 17823
Details
PENTRIDGE SU 01 NW PENTRIDGE VILLAGE (North-west side)
3/73 Church of St Rumbold
GV II
Parish church, chancel 1815 (Newman and Pevsner), remainder 1855-7: 1855-7 work by Slater. Squared rubble and flint with ashlar dressings, tiled roof. Plan: west tower, nave, chancel, south porch. In the Decorated style. West tower: 2 stages with short broach spire; square-set buttresses; 2-light pointed west window with curvilinear tracery; loop to first stage; belfry has cinquefoiled lancets. Main body of church has 2-light, pointed windows with curvilinear tracery. Pointed, chamfered door to south chancel wall. 3-light, pointed east window with curvilinear tracery and labels with head stops. Timber south porch with pointed arch, cusped bargeboards and original gates.
Internal features: pointed chancel arch on respond half-columns; braced, scissor-truss roof to nave; boarded waggon roof to chancel; C19 octagonal font; C19 pews; C19 glass; C18 wall monument to Robert and Elizabeth Browning, great grandparents of the poet. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p 53, no. 1. Newman, J and Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p 312).
Listing NGR: SU0331617823
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107410
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 53
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 312
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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