Church of St Hubert

Heritage listing

Details Parish church, until 1864 dedicated to St Peter and St Paul. A Saxo-Norman church probably dating from the C10 or earlier with a chancel added in the C12 or C13, the nave widened on the south side in the early C16. The church was repaired in 1793 and 1824 and the west porch is shown on a map of 1864. The church was restored and a vestry and organ gallery added in 1912-1913 by the architect H S Goodhart-Rendel for the Clark-Jervoise family. The vestry and chancel roof were restored following a fire in 1971 and the bell turret was restored in 1983. MATERIALS: flint and stone rubble walls, some rendered, with stone dressings, but the porch has brick dressings. Gabled tiled roofs, except for the bell turret which has a pyramidal roof hung with shingles. PLAN: a two-bay nave, incorporating an organ gallery at the west end and bell turret at the eastern end, a lower two-bay chancel, west porch and a south-east vestry attached to the western bay of the chancel. EXTERIOR: the west end is rendered, gable ended and has stone quoins. Below is a pointed arched entrance with wooden door. The later west porch is of flint with red brick quoins, including some reused Tudor bricks. The gable has decorative fretted barge boards and the entrance has a crenellated lettered tie beam above low wooden gates with crenellated tops. The inner sides have fixed seating. The north side of the nave has two paired wooden windows with leaded lights and between them is a small Norman round-headed window. At the east end is a narrow blocked round-headed Norman doorway. The south side of the nave has two late Perpendicular stone two-light windows with hood-moulds. At the western corner is an incised medieval sun-dial. The bell turret at the east end of the nave has a square bell stage and a pyram

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.