Listed Building record MDO4125 - Parish church of All Saints, Kington Magna

The parish church of All Saints has walls of rubble with ashlar dressings, and gable-ended, tiled roofs with stone copings. The church has a late 15th century tower, remainder rebuilt in 1862. 19th century work by Charles Turner of Southampton.

Church of Holy Trinity, Kington Magna largely rebuilt in 1861 but with good 15th century tower. <2>

Parish Church of All Saints, Kington Magna - "not The Holy Trinity as on OS maps" according to RCHM footnote. The church has walls of rubble with ashlar dressings and the west tower is of late 15th century date. The remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1862. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 76812314) Holy Trinity Church (NAT)

<2> DOE (HHR), Oct 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Shaftesbury RD (Scheduling record). SDO17584.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 41 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(1) THE PARISH CHURCH OS ALL SAINTS, has walls of rubble with ashlar dressings, and tiled roofs. The West Tower is of the late 15th century. The Chancel, Nave, North and South Aisles, and the South Porch were rebuilt in 1862, the architect being Charles Turner of Southampton.
Architectual Description -The massive West Tower (Plate I) is of thress main stages, with a moulded plinth, weathered and hollow-chamfered string courses between the stages, and an embattled parapet with moulded coping. At the N.W. and S.W. corners diagonal buttresses of four weathered stages, that on the N.W. partly restored and having an additional weathered offset half-way up the second stag; the tops of the buttresses coincide with the string-course between the second and third tower stages.'

<4> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 249 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<5> Steptoe, T and Bellamy, P, 1999, All Saints' Church, Kington Magna, Dorset. Archaeological Watching Brief (Unpublished document). SDO12320.

<6> Bridge, M, 2008, All Saints' Church, Kington Magna, Dorset. Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from the Belfry Floor (Monograph). SDO14391.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202446 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Apr 16 2025 3:18PM