Listed Building record MDO10691 - St James's Church, Chedington

Parish Church. 1840-1, by R Carver of Taunton. Organ chamber, Baptistry, south porch added by G Vialls. Altogether: Nave, Chancel, South Porch, Baptistery (west end), South Vestry, Organ Chamber. Ham stone ashlar walls with a chamfered plinth. Slate roof with stone gable-copings.

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<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 89 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(1) PARISH CHURCH OF ST. JAMES was entirely rebuilt in 1841.
Fittings—Bell: one, inaccessible but said to be of 1610. Monuments: In nave—on N. wall, (1) to William Hody, 173(5 ?)7, and William his son, 1780, wall-monument of white marble with apron, cornice and cartouche-of-arms. In the old churchyard—(2) to Samuel Hallet, 1684, table-tomb; (3) to Thomas Hallet, 1617, table-tomb; (4) to Robert Notley, 1698–9, and Dorothy his wife, 1707, table-tomb. Miscellanea: In S. porch—mutilated cap, possibly of an angle-shaft, built into W. wall, 12th-century.’

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1982, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1981 (Serial). SDO81.

‘CHEDINGTON. Following the redundancy of the parish church of St. James, the 17th-century bell is now at St. Francis' School, Hooke, and the 12th-century architectural fragment, originally loose in the porch, will be deposited at the Dorset County Museum.’

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF051565 (Index). SDO14738.

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<4> Ordnance Survey, 20-JUL-1989, OS OS/89388 043-4, 526887 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14379.

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