Former Church of St Denis at the Kennels, Harewood Park

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HAREWOOD CP SO 52 NW 3/42 Former Church of St Denis at The Kennels, Harewood Park

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Parish church, now store. Rebuilt 1864 with later additions. Sandstone ashlar and dressings with tile and Welsh slate roofs. Combined nave and chancel of four bays, north vestry and cyclindrical bell-tower, south porch and south chapel in late Romanesque and Early English styles. West elevation has oculus in gable with a pair of lozenge panels beneath, arcade of five round arches supported by attached shafts with cushion capitals, the inner pair glazed, the centre and outer pair blind, central pilaster beneath arcade rising to moulded string, flanking pilasters. North elevation has four lancets each under label, the left one masked by cyclindrical bell-tower with octagonal pitched slate roof, supported on circle of short shafts forming bell-opening, roof of bell-tower is penetrated by chimney pot and has finial at apex, four buttresses with off-sets and deep plinths rise to eaves between the lancets; vestry, to right of bell-tower has two windows with 4-centred heads and entry from west above the lintel of which is a trefoiled typanum. East elevation has three stepped moulded lancets flanked by a pair of weathered angle buttresses, above the central lancet is a trefoiled opening set in a moulded circular margin and a gable-cross, on the left is a trefoiled light to the south chapel. South elevation has three cinquefoiled circular lights above roof of porch separated by three gabled weathered flying buttresses to left and centre with one angle buttress to right-hand side; under the two left-hand cinquefoiled lights is a porch in the form of a two-bay loggia with a pair of 2-centred trefoiled openings flanked by lower square-headed openings with round typana above, each supported on squat columns from high plinth, the entry into the loggia is via the right- hand opening, to the right of which is the south chapel entered by a west- facing round headed doorway of one order with imposts breaking out into a label moulding; main entrance is west bay of loggia is similar to the last but with a wooden typanum; around the south door of the church, within the loggia, are four wall monuments including a marble plaque to Henry Hoskins, died 1813, and a marble aedicule with broken pediment for Bennett Hoskyns, died 1679. Interior has four-bay quadripartite stone vault with chamfered ribs rising from part octagonal chamfered and tapered corbels, a moulded string course runs around the west and north sides at a level corresponding with the bottom of the corbels, whereas on the south side the string course is level with the abaci of the corbels, at the east end the lower string course becomes a red-brown and white marble frieze returning westwards around the altar position, on the frieze are angels, grotesques and the inscription: "AMEN: BLESSING AND GLORY: AND WISDOM: THANKSGIVING AND HONOR: AND POWER AND MIGHT: BE UNTO OUR GOD: FOR EVER AND EVER: AMEN"; inner lancets in east wall have clustered Purbeck-like shafts with rings on the floor in the south-east corner is a floor tile, possibly medieval, showing two figures, the right one wearing a crown, holding hands above a tree; to the west of the two altar steps is a marble floor slab for Sir John Hoskins, Knight, died 1705, with achieve- ment in bas-relief set in an oval panel. South wall has deeply moulded round arches to south doorway and chapel, the latter on moulded imposts, engaged squared shafts with deep bases; upper 2-centred chamfered arches behind outer cinquefoil lights are on short columns. West wall has two round-headed windows linked by continuous roughly cut unfinished imposts. North wall has at its east end a recess, probably early C20, with chamfered and moulded 2-centred head and head-stops and doorway to newel stairs leading down to vestry, its east window has stained glass depicting The Virgin inscribed: "S MARIA MATER DEI/ ELIZ EMMA UX JOSEPHI PARRY, its next window to the west is pictorially illegible and inscribed "ANN: FIL: NATU MAXIMA JOSEPHI DE ALLINGTON PARRY"; the second window from the west end depicts St George and the Dragon; the westernmost window shows "FAITH" and is inscribed: "BLANCHE FIL UNICA JOSPEHI PARRY". (RCHM Vol I, p 83-4).

Listing NGR: SO5302728068

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Sources

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Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 83-4

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