Listed Building record MDO3921 - Hanford Chapel (formerly the parish church of St Michael and All Angels), Hanford

Chapel, formerly the Parish Church of Saint Michael and All Saints. It is thought to be medieval in origin, but it was largely rebuilt in the 17th century (datestone 1650). Little evidence of the original church has been identified. The building has walls of coursed ashlar and the roof is covered in stone slates. Undifferentiated nave and chancel with west porch.

(ST 84571117) Hanford Chapel (NAT) <1>

THE PARISH CHURCH ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, some 50 yds N. of Hanford House, has walls of coursed ashlar and is roofed with stone-slates; the walls are probably of Medieval origin but the church was largely rebuilt in the middle of the 17th century. The crypt is modern. <2>

Church of St Michael and All Angels. Grade II*. <3-4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1962 (Map). SDO18658.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 101-2, Plan, No 1 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(1) The Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels, some 50 yds. N. of Hanford House, has walls of coursed ashlar and is roofed with stone-slates; the walls are probably of mediaeval origin but the church was largely rebuilt in the middle of the 17th century. The crypt is modern.

The Nave and Chancel (35 ft. by 19 ft.) are undivided. The 17th-century E. window (Plate 141) is of Gothic form and has three round-headed cinquefoil lights with vertical tracery in a two-centred head; the tracery has trefoil cusping at the top and bottom of each light. The N. and S. walls have each three 17th-century pointed windows of two lancet lights with a plain spandrel light above; the stone jambs and mullions are moulded externally and hollow-chamfered internally. The splayed reveals and rear arch of the central doorway in the W. wall probably survive from the mediaeval structure, but the elliptical door-head and continuous moulded jambs are of the 17th century. The W. gable is surmounted by an open stone bell-cote with a horizontal head resting on cyma-profiled imposts. The 17th-century West Porch (7 ft. square) is entered from the S. through an elliptical headed opening (Plate 141) with a moulded archivolt which springs from bold cyma cornices; these rest on pulvinated frieze-blocks, and jambs moulded to represent the vertical and horizontal members of an eared architrave, the horizontal mouldings of the lintel being returned on the reveals. The porch has a flat roof concealed by a parapet with a moulded string-course and capping. A reset stone in the parapet is inscribed ANNO DO. 1650.

Fittings—Bell: pear-shaped, without inscription, probably 13th century. Door: with incised fleur-de-lis wrought-iron hinges, mediaeval; woodwork 17th century. Graffiti: In W. porch, several 17th and 18th-century dates and initials. Plate: includes 19th-century reproduction of Elizabethan cup, also paten of 1721.’

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 225 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> DOE (HHR), 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset District, 21 (Scheduling record). SDO17732.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF051572 (Index). SDO14738.

Object Title: ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS' CHURCH, HANFORD. Scope & Content: File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206303 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 20 2023 8:01PM