Church Of St Rumbold

PENTRIDGE SU 01 NW PENTRIDGE VILLAGE (North-west side)

3/73 Church of St Rumbold

GV II

Parish church, chancel 1815 (Newman and Pevsner), remainder 1855-7: 1855-7 work by Slater. Squared rubble and flint with ashlar dressings, tiled roof. Plan: west tower, nave, chancel, south porch. In the Decorated style. West tower: 2 stages with short broach spire; square-set buttresses; 2-light pointed west window with curvilinear tracery; loop to first stage; belfry has cinquefoiled lancets. Main body of church has 2-light, pointed windows with curvilinear tracery. Pointed, chamfered door to south chancel wall. 3-light, pointed east window with curvilinear tracery and labels with head stops. Timber south porch with pointed arch, cusped bargeboards and original gates.

Internal features: pointed chancel arch on respond half-columns; braced, scissor-truss roof to nave; boarded waggon roof to chancel; C19 octagonal font; C19 pews; C19 glass; C18 wall monument to Robert and Elizabeth Browning, great grandparents of the poet. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p 53, no. 1. Newman, J and Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p 312).

Listing NGR: SU0331617823