Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17540374

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