Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (103566)

WINTERBORNE KINGSTON SY 8697 CHURCH STREET 14/150 Church of St Nicholas 14-7-55 GV II* Parish church; nave, chancel and porch of C14 origin, some C16 fenestration; north aisle, vestry and general restoration 1871. 1871 work by G E Street. Banded rubble and flint with ashlar dressings, tiled roof with stone coping. West tower: single external stage with diagonal 2-stage buttresses; embattled parapet with moulded string course; pointed west window of 2 lights with curvilinear tracery; belfry has pointed, Y-tracery windows with reset head- corbels over. South nave has an original paired, trefoiled lancets. A similar window is reset in the north aisle wall. The nave has 2 C16, square- headed, 4-light windows. The south chancel wall has a C14, pointed curvilinear tracery window and a chamfered, segmental pointed door. C19, 3-light,pointed east window. The C19 work is fenestrated mainly with pairs and triplets of lancets. The south porch has a C14, pointed, moulded archway with continuous jambs and a doorway with a moulded, pointed head, continuous jambs and a cinquefoiled rere-arch. Internal features: 4 bay arcade with pointed arches, the eastern bay being C14 with mouldings dying into the responds and the others being C19 with clustered shafts with moulded capitals and bases; C19 pointed, moulded chancel arch with shaftes responds having capitals and bases; pointed tower arch of 3 chamfered orders dying into the responds; C19 arch-braced collar roof to nave with single windbraced purlin and ashlar pieces; chancel has C19 ribbed barrel roof; C14 trefoiled piscina; C17 octagonal pulpit with heightsof panelling and a chip- carved frieze; stone font dated 1736 of baluster form having original cover with pineapple finial; C19 encaustic tiles; C19 monument; other features largely C19. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.III, p.300/1, no.1 Newman, J. and Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.481.) Listing NGR: SY8622497600

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