Former Church of the Holy Rood (Now Redundant) is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Church.
Former Church of the Holy Rood (Now Redundant)
- WRENN ID
- veiled-sandstone-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Former Church of the Holy Rood (Now Redundant), Church Lane, Coombe Keynes
- OS grid reference
- SY 842 841
- Coordinates
- 50.6564, -2.22401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Church of the Holy Rood, now redundant, features a tower dating from the 13th century, while the rest of the church was rebuilt between 1860 and 1861 by architect Thomas Hicks. The building has stone walls and stone slate roofs with coped gables, comprising a nave, chancel, north porch, and west tower. The tower is two stages high, topped with a pyramidal roof and shallow clasping angle buttresses. It has simple lancet windows, with the upper stage featuring pierced stone panels. The south wall of the nave includes four plain lancet windows, separated by intermediate buttresses, while the chancel has two similar windows. The north elevation mirrors this design but has a porch that replaces one nave window. The porch features a pointed arched doorway with a lancet window above it. Inside, the roof is made of pine in a trussed rafter form, supported by arch-braced trusses. There are some 18th-century graveslabs in the floor, and the chancel arch from the 13th century has been re-set. Most furnishings have been removed. The north wall to the churchyard is made of brick and was the former boundary with The Old Parsonage.
Local climate
Former Church of the Holy Rood (Now Redundant) receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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