Listed Building record MDO8898 - Parish Church of All Saints, Hilton

Parish Church, possibly of twelfth century origin. Tower and porch fifteenth century the rest of the church was largely rebuilt in the sixteenth century, incorporating material from Milton Abbey. Chancel restored and vestry built in nineteenth century. Walls mainly flint and stone banding; slate roofs with coped gables and parapets to aisles. Nave, north and south aisles of three bays, chancel with north and south chapels, west tower, south porch - projecting into aisle, vestry west of north aisle. Tower, ashlar stone, of three stages, with battlemented parapet, angle pinnacles and gargoyles. In tower two fifteenth century painted wood panels of four Apostles, from Milton Abbey.

A parish church, possibly of 12th century origin, but rebuilt during the 15th and 16th centuries and incorporating some material from Milton Abbey. The west tower and south porch are 15th century in date, while the nave, south aisle and chancel were rebuilt in the 16th century. The north aisle was added at the same time, creating the north chapel. The south aisle was widened in 1569, forming the south chapel, which was originally separated from the aisle by a north-south wall. This wall was removed in the late 19th century, when the chancel was restored, and the vestry added. Listed. <1-3>

1980, All Saints Church Hilton (Monograph). SDO18157.

Le Pard, Gordon, 1998, Medieval sundials in Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 119, 76 (Article in serial). SDO21411.

<1> DOE (HHR), 1987, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset (Scheduling record). SDO17421.

10-Ooct-1985

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 228 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 110-112 (Monograph). SDO146.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1357265 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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