Church of St Dubricius is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Dubricius

WRENN ID
quiet-sill-moss
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Dubricius, Kilpeck
OS grid reference
SO 440 312
Coordinates
51.97662, -2.8154
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Dubricius is a parish church that dates back to the 13th century, featuring a nave from that period, a west tower from the 14th century, and a late 14th century chancel. It underwent restoration in the mid to late 19th century. The church is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a 20th-century concrete tiled roof.

The west tower is built in three stages, with the upper stages noticeably offset above the ground stage. It has a plain parapet, a square-headed loop on the west side of the ground stage, and a pointed loop on the second stage. Each side of the bell stage features two trefoil-headed lights set within a two-centred arch-headed opening. The nave includes a largely restored lancet window on the left and a similar window, along with another window featuring two trefoil-headed lights and a quatrefoil in a roundel, to the right of a 19th-century gabled timber-framed porch. The doorway has a two-centred arch with chamfered jambs. The north wall has a 19th-century two-light window to the right of a blocked north doorway, a single lancet, and a 13th-century two-light window to the left.

The chancel features square-headed windows with two trefoiled ogee-headed lights flanking a late 15th or early 16th-century doorway with chamfered jambs and a four-centred head. There are two similar windows on the north side, and the restored 14th-century east window has three trefoiled ogee-headed lights with tracery and a two-centred head.

Inside, there is a 15th or 16th-century font with an octagonal bowl and splayed underside, supported by an octagonal stem and square base. The chancel contains a 14th-century piscina with a chamfered and rebated two-centred head and a damaged quatrefoiled bowl. Tomb recesses with low segmental pointed arches are found in the north and south walls of the nave.

Notable monuments include those on the west wall for Thomas Goode, who died in 1664, featuring a coat of arms and cherub heads with a scrolled bolection mould surround, and for Ann Goode, who died in 1668, also with figure and cherub heads and a scrolled bolection mould surround. The church contains many other memorials, mostly from the 19th century, dedicated to the Goode family in the chancel.

Local climate

Church of St Dubricius receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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