Description

HOLT SU 00 SW HOLT VILLAGE

9/61 Church of St James

II

Parish Church, 1836, repairs and alterations 1875 and chancel 1889. 1875 work by J Tulloch, 1875 work by T H Wyatt. Flemish bond brickwork with some flared headers and some ashlar dressings. Slate roof with stone gable copings and west ashlar bell-cote. Plan: nave; chancel; transeptal vestry and organ chamber. Nave: brick lancets separated by weathered buttresses; west, pointed, moulded doorway with returned label and plank door; pointed window in moulded, trefoiled recess with label above. Chancel and transepts; transept windows of 3-lights under straight heads with curvilinear tracery; 5-light east window under pointed head with curvilinear tracery, each light separated by an ashlar strip; flat buttresses; roughcast gables. Interior: pointed, moulded chancel arch dying into jambs with subsidiary pointed arches either side; pointed transept arches of 2 chamfered orders; tie beam nave roof; king and queen post roof to chancel; C19 glass; C19 monuments; C19 octagonal stone font on octagonal plinth; early C17 octagonal timber pulpit from Wimborne Minster Church with moulded arcade and entablature supported by freestanding Corinthian columns; other features C19. The chancel is of a curiously modernistic design for the period. (R.C.H.M. Dorset, Vol V, p.32, no. 1, Newman J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England. Dorset, 1972, 1972, p.232. Warren Col P J K 'The Story of Holt Church and Holt Forest, Wimborne, revised 1975).

Listing NGR: SU0300103925

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)