Description

ST 71 NE HINTON ST MARY HINTON ST MARY
VILLAGE

4/36 Church of St Peter
4.10.60
GV II*

Parish Church, C15 west tower, remainder 1846 by William Oborne.
Coursed, squared rubble and ashlar. Stone-slated, gable-ended roofs
with stone copings. Plan: nave, chancel, west tower, south porch and
north vestry. Both medieval and C19 work in the 'perpendicular'
style. West tower: 2 stages with embattled parapet; weathered strings;
chamfered plinth: moulded, 2-centred west doorway with returned label;
over is Cl9 2-light, vertical tracery window with a returned label;
north wall has rectangular loop; upper stage has 2-centred, 2-light,
blind tracery windows with labels terminated by head stops; angle
pilasters; crocketted corner-finials; parapet string bears gargoyles;
lower string has corner angels bearing blank shields. Nave windows
are of 3-lights with square heads and returned labels. North and south
chancel windows are 2-centred, of 2-lights with returned labels.
Vestry fenestration similar to chancel. East chancel window of 3-lights
under 2-centred head with label terminating in head stops. Square
headed south chancel doorway. 2 centred, chamfered vestry doorway.
South porch doorway has 2-centred, chamfered head with returned label.
Internal features: near semi-circular chancel arch, probably of
reworked medieval material of 2 orders, shafted jambs with capitals;
segmental pointed tower arch of 2 chamfered orders dying into plain
responds; king post roofs; Cl8 mahogany veneered pulpit with fielded
panelling; probably Cl3 round, tapering bowl,stone font on cylindrical
stem and circular base; C17, C18 and Cl9 monuments, notably that to
Thomas Freke 1642 with broken pediment supported on Corinthian columns
with skull below; other fittings etc mainly C19.
RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 114, no 1; Newman, J and Pevsner N, The
Buildings of England, Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 230.

Listing NGR: ST7867816099

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539333

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