Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26446402

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)