Listed Building record MDO9048 - Church of St Nicholas, Winterborne Kingston

Parish church. 14th century with additions and restoration in the 1870s. The west tower, nave, chancel and south porch date largely from the 14th century, some of the fenestration is 16th century, and the north aisle and north vestry were added in the late 19th century. Built of banded flint and local Heathstone rubble with ashlar dressings and clay tiled roofs. Nave of four bays with north aisle and north vestry, chancel, west tower and south porch.

Church of St. Nicholas, Winterborne Kingston has walls of flint and rubble with ashlar dressings. The chancel, nave, west tower and south porch are of 14th century origin but were extensively restored in 1871 when the north aisle and vestry were added. <1>

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1910, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, xxxviii-xxxix (Serial). SDO21.

WINTERBOURNE KINGSTON.
The party did not dismount from their carriages at Winterbourne Kingston, but they pulled up for a minute to have a view of the exterior of the church of St. Nicholas, built, like so many others, of courses of flint and ashlar, and in the Early English style.
The south doorway has a beautiful feathered inner-arch. In 1873, when it was restored from designs by Mr. George E. Street, R.A., the eminent architect, who made a special study of the Early English period of architecture, the north aisle was added, and a memorial window to Mrs. Michel. In Little's Farmhouse, in this parish, there is to be seen some ancient heraldic glass, in which the griffin rampant of the Dacombes is associated with the arms of the families with whom they intermarried.

Le Pard, Gordon, 1998, Medieval sundials in Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 119, 66 Pl 1, 71 Fig 2.4, 84 (Article in serial). SDO21411.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1 to 25 inch scale map, 1956 (Map). SDO18020.

(SY 86239760) St. Nicholas's Church (C of E) (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 300-1 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(1) THE CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS stands in the S.E. part of the village. The walls are of flint and Heathstone rubble with ashlar dressings; the roofs are tiled. The Chancel, Nave, West Tower and South Porch are of 14th-century origin but were extensively restored in 1871, under G. E. Street, when the North Aisle and the North Vestry were added.’

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 481 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455802 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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