Church of St Dennis
CHURCH OF ST DENNIS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348774
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Dennis
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST DENNIS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348774
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Dennis
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST DENNIS
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 DENNIS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pencoyd
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 51608 26555
Details
PENCOYD CP - SO 52 NW
3/72 Church of St Dennis
GV II*
Parish church. C14 nave and chancel with rebuilt chancel and south porch of 1877-8 when the church was restored (RCHM Vol I, p 209). Sandstone rubble, coursed sandstone and sandstone dressings, tiled roof. Nave, west tower, chancel and north porch. West tower has battered base and three stages with projecting parapet; west side has one central loop to bottom and first stages; top stage has a single ogeed opening to each face. Nave: south wall has two re-set ogeed one-light windows, one to the west and one to the centre, with a 2-light ogeed and trefoiled window under a square head to the east; the north wall has a 2-light ogeed light to the east of the porch and a single ogeed light immediately west of the chancel. The re-built chancel has a single-light ogeed window with a square head on the south wall; the east window, set between buttresses with off-sets is of two trefoiled lights under a 2-centred head. North porch is timber- framed with a quatrefoiled gable, the front posts have pyramidal chamfer- stops to their bases and carry angle struts rising to an ogee under the tie- beam; scissor truss roof; three-bay panels to each side with trefoil-headed openings above former from cusped angle struts. North doorway has 2-centred head with a label. Interior: chamfered 2-centred opening between tower and nave; roof of nave has C16 (?) braced collar beam trusses, mainly intact, except for the three to the extreme east which are restored and one cambered and chamfered tie-beam. Chancel arch is 2-centred and chamfered with head stops to label. Chancel has wagon roof, late C19 trefoiled and ogee-headed piscina with part octagonal drain; opposite on the north wall is a trefoiled and ogeed niche under a gabled label with a finial at the apex. Font, perhaps C13, has plain cyclindrical bowl and stem on a late C19 base. The south- west nave window has a C13 tomb slab with circles and fleur-de-lis motifs re-used as a lintel. Tower carries three bells, the two eastern ones apparently medieval with Lombardic lettering; the western one probably C17.
Listing NGR: SO5160826555
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 155229
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 209
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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