Church of St Kenelm
CHURCH OF ST KENELM, B.3078
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303860
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Kenelm
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST KENELM, B.3078
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303860
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Kenelm
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST KENELM, B.3078
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 KENELM, B.3078
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 00448 03812
Details
HINTON PARVA SU 00 SW B.3078
9/39 Church of St Kenelm
18.3.55 II
Parish Church, c1860 with some reset C12 fragments. For Sir William Glyn. Banded flint rubble and ashlar with ashlar dressings. Tiled roofs with stone gable capings and ashlar parapets. Partly neo-Romanesque with the nave and chancel in the Early English style. Plan: nave; chancel; north and south transepts, south tower over porch. Tower: 3 stage surmounted by a hexagonal ashlar spire; doorway has a round arch with shafted jambs with cushion capitals, an inner chevron moulding and an outer double billet moulding; west window of a single, round headed light with shafted jambs; similar window to second stage; third stage has an arcade of intersecting round arches forming 3 openings, the centre of which is blind; the outer openings contain pierced stone panels; rounded corbel table; south transept has a 2-light south window with shafted jambs under a round head; the east window is similar of a single light. East chancel window of 3 graduated, pointed lights under a pointed head. West nave window of 3 graduated lancets under continuous label with carved stops. Remaining windows are plain lancets. Internal features: remodelled semi circular chancel arch with hood moulds having chevron ornament and shafted responds, one of which retains an original capital; carved C12 stone panel with figure, book and cross, reset over door; reset early C19 monuments; C19 collar truss roofs. Other features later C19 or C20. (R.C.H.M. Dorset Vol V, p.31, No. 1.Newman, J. and Pevsner N. The Buildings of England. Dorset, 1972, p.229/30).
Listing NGR: SU0044803812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107497
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 31
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 229-330
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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