Church Of St Hilda

SE 68 SE 336/7/10002

BEADLAM A170 (North side) CHURCH OF ST HILDA II

Parish church. 1882. Designed by Charles Hodgson Fowler. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings, plain tile roofs and coped gables with finials. Quoins. Chamfered plinth and sill band. Nave and chancel under single roof with dividing coped gable. Wooden square bellcote with, pyramidal wooden spire to west gable. South porch and north-east vestry. West front has 2 lancet windows with hood moulds and single mandola shaped window above, all in chamfered surrounds. North front has 2 chamfered lancets with hood moulds to nave. Projecting lean-to vestry with Caernarvon arched doorway to west and single small lancets to north and east, and gabled ashlar chimney stack. East front has 3 graduated chamfered lancets in single pointed ashlar opening with hood mould. South front has slightly projecting lean-to porch with bracketed hood and pointed arched doorway with double chamfered surround. Nave has 3 chamfered lancets and chancel has pair of chamfered lancets plus a single lancet beyond. INTERIOR has double chamfered chancel arch. Arch braced collar roof to nave incorporating wooden bell frame to west and lower painted panelled roof to chancel. Wooden pews and pulpit. Octagonal stone font. East stained glass window by Kempe & Tower c1903-05. Marble wall relief monument to Lilian Duncombe, 1905, carved by Countess Gleichen, daughter of Count Gleichen Prince Victor of Hohenlohen-Langenburg (also a sculptor and nephew to Queen Victoria).

Listing NGR: SE6545584636