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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26609231

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas