Listed Building record MDO15428 - St John's Church, Holdenhurst, Bournemouth

Church rebuilt on new site 1834 by George Evans of Wimborne, Georgian Gothic but in stone, not stucco. Perpendicular style, 2-light nave and south transept windows. Hexagonal open bellcote with 4-centred arches, projecting from narrower base, pinnacles, central finial. Polygonal apse, gabled north-east vestry, and lean-to western narthex, all added by Benjamin Ferrey, 1873. Interior aisleless, heavy hammerbeam roof with traceried spandrels, plain arch to transept. Ferrey's apse roof has arched trusses. Gabled and pinnacled reredos of alabaster and pink marble with inlaid cross (style of Street); stained glass to lancets of C13 medallion type. Chancel arch round-headed, on corbels. 2 window by Kempe (deaths 1898, 1907). (1)

<1> DOE (HHR), 27 Feb 76, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth 1976, 31 (Scheduling record). SWX3488.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 1:1250, 1970 (Map). SWX1844.

(SZ 12939521) St Johns' Church (NAT)

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 884448 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 29 2024 3:44PM