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

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