Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324579
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324579
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH HILL
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 ALL SAINTS, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kington Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 76814 23135
Details
ST 72 SE KINGTON MAGNA CHURCH HILL
6/173 Church of All Saints 16.8.60. GV II*
Parish church, late C15 tower, remainder rebuilt in 1862. C19 work by Charles Turner of Southampton. Coursed rubble and coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings. Gable-ended, tiled roofs with stone copings. Plan: nave, chancel, north and south aisles, west tower and north vestry. Tower is largely in the 'Perpendicular' style, whilst the C19 work is mainly 'Decorated'. West tower: 3 stage with weathered strings, embattled parapet and diagonal buttresses; rectangular vice; west door is moulded with 4-centred head and stopped label; C19 west window of 3-lights with reticulated tracery under 2-centred head with stopped label; second stage south wall has a single cusped light; bell stage has 2-light, 2-centred 'Perpendicular' windows with stopped labels. North aisle: 2-light square headed north windows possibly in part-medieval and reset; west door is moulded and 2-centred with jambs and a label with head stops; west window of 3-lights under 2-centred head. South aisles: south windows of 2-lights with curvilinear tracery under 2-centred heads; west window similar; east window of 3-lights with reticulated tracery under a 2-centred head with returned labels (possibly partly medieval, reset). East chancel window is 2-centred, of 3-lights with reticulated tracery and label with head stops. Gabled south porch with 2-centred moulded arch. Interior: 2-bay, 2-centred arcades on piers with 4 shafts separated by hollow chamfers, moulded capitals and bases; moulded, semi-circular chancel arch with flat jambs with capitals; 2-centred, moulded tower arch dying into flat jambs; C19 arch-braced collar truss roofs; C14 trefoiled piscina reset in south aisle; probably C19 font with round bowl on cylindrical shaft; C19 pews some with linenfold carved panels; monument to John Dowding 1747 in tower. (RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 41/2, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 249).
Listing NGR: ST7681423135
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103012
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 41-42
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 249
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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