Listed Building record MDO5669 - All Saints Church, Hampreston

Parish Church of All Saints, of Norman origin, fourteenth century chancel and tower, vestry added in 1823, restoration of 1896 with addition of north aisle, north porch and organ chamber. Walls of ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings and a tiled roof.

Church of All Saints. Parish Church of Norman origins, 14th century chancel and tower; restored 1896 with additions of North aisle, North porch and organ chamber. The font is 12th or 13th century, reset in the 15th century. Grade II*. <2,3>

The early 12th century plain semi-circular tympanum has been used to form the North doorway in the North aisle wall. <4>

All Saints Hampreston, 14th Century Parish Church (Monograph). SDO18152.

Le Pard, Gordon, 1998, Medieval sundials in Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 119, 75 (Article in serial). SDO21411.

Zochowski, A, and Williams, R, 2020, All Saint's Church, Hampreston, Dorset: Archaeological Watching Brief (Unpublished document). SDO21148.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1944 (Map). SWX1197.

(SZ 0551 9880) All Saints Church (NAT).

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 26-27 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(1) THE PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, on the E. of Hampreston village, has walls of coursed Heathstone rubble with ashlar dressings and is roofed with plain tiles and stone-slates (Plate 2). The reset head of the N. doorway is evidence of a 12th-century church. The Chancel is of the first half of the 14th century and the West Tower is a little later. Drawings made in 1896 show that the Nave formerly had windows of 15th-century form; one of them, restored, remains more or less in situ. A former N. porch, removed in 1896, had been built in 1731; the South Vestry was added in 1823. In 1896 the church was extensively restored and the North Aisle, Organ Chamber and North Porch were added. Plans and elevations showing the church before restoration are with the Faculty Petition (Sarum Diosc. Regy., 1896).’

<3> Department of the Environment, 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wimborne District, 14 (Scheduling record). SDO17336.

Oct-87

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1985, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1984, 13, 20 (Serial). SDO84.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OP24577 (Index). SDO14738.

A view of All Saints' Church, Hampreston, from the south-east, with the tower scaffolded for repair work

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OP24578 (Index). SDO14738.

A view of the scaffolded tower of All Saints' Church, Hampreston, from the south

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888395 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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May 1 2025 12:03PM