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Latitude: 51.8529 / 51°51'10"N
Longitude: -0.2917 / 0°17'29"W
OS Eastings: 517758
OS Northings: 218526
OS Grid: TL177185
Mapcode National: GBR H70.YXG
Mapcode Global: VHGP4.WPPF
Plus Code: 9C3XVP35+58
Entry Name: Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul
Listing Date: 27 May 1968
Last Amended: 21 March 1984
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1102783
English Heritage Legacy ID: 162033
Location: Kimpton, North Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, SG4
County: Hertfordshire
District: North Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Kimpton
Built-Up Area: Kimpton
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Kimpton
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Church building
TL 1718 KIMPTON CHURCH LANE
(east side)
9/86 Parish Church of
St Peter and St Paul
27.5.68
GV I
Parish Church. Circa 1200 nave. C13 chancel. C15 S aisle and
chapel,nave clerestorey and W tower. Restored 1861 and N aisle
rebuilt. Rubble flint with stone dressings. Red brick to eaves.
Nave has Westmoreland slate hipped roof and C18 wooden coved
eaves. 3-stage W tower has clasped buttresses and tall moulded
plinth. W door in deep surround. Battlemented. Needle spire.
2-storey octagonal stair turret on N. Fenestration is restored
C15. N nave aisle has plate-traceried gabled windows. C15
crenellated Porch with polygonal stair turret. Interior has nave
arcade of 6 bays in a Transitional/Early English style. Drum
Piers with capitals alternately stiff leaf and scalloped. 2-
light cusped clerestorey windows. C18 flat nave roof. S chancel
aisle has tall C15 3-arch arcade with Piers of 4 shafts. Shallow
canted C15 timber roof to S nave aisle, the tie beams on figured
stone stops. Screen and stalls of chapel C15. Traces of C13
painting on jamb of lancet window next to E window of Chancel.
Monument to Thomas Brand, twentieth Baron Dacre (d.1851) on N
chancel wall: good Early English style tabernacle frame. Wall
monument to Sir Jonathan Keate (d. 1700), S chancel chapel:
marble plaque with entablature and fluted pilasters. Main E
window: glass by Mayer of Munich c.1890. (Pevsner (1977)).
Listing NGR: TL1775818526
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