Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26590894

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)