Church of St Dunstan

Heritage listing

Details SP 8104 RINCES RISBOROUGH BURTON LANE (MONKS RISBOROUGH) 8/150 Church of St. Dunstan 21.6.55 GV I Parish church. Early C14 W. tower, remainder late C14-C15 with C19 vestry/ organ chamber to N. of chancel. Restored 1863. Flint with stone dressings, tiled chancel and S. porch, lead roofs to nave, aisles, tower and N. transept. W. tower of 3 stages has moulded plinth and strings, angle buttresses, and parapet with carved head corbel table. 2-light traceried openings to bell-chamber, lancets below to N. and S., 2-light traceried window and moulded doorway to W., the doorway with carved head stops to hoodmould. Square projecting stair turret at S.E. corner. Nave has late C15 clerestory, with 4 bays of 3-light cusped windows and restored battlemented parapet. N. aisle has small C20 2-light cusped window at W. end, C20 3-light cusped window to right, 3-light Perpendicular window to left, and moulded doorway. S. aisle has chamfered plinth, dripmould, and 2 2-light traceried windows, the right with moulded surround and carved head stops. Internally this window has moulded arches and inner arch on slender shafts with moulded capitals. C19 3-light window to E. Moulded S. doorway with stoup to right. C15 gabled porch has restored arch with moulded chalk spandrels, cusped blind window above, and single cusped lights to sides. N. transept has restored 3-light Perpendicular windows with carved head hoodmould stops to N. and E. Similar windows to N. and S. of chancel, the S. side also with small door, completely C19, the E. end with C19 3-light traceried window. Interior: triple chamfered arch to tower with small arched opening to chamber above. Nave has clunch arcades with 4 bays of double hollow chamfered arches, broach stopped, on octagonal piers with moulded capitals, the N

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.