All Saints, Hilton
All Saints, Hilton
All Saints is the Grade I parish church of Hilton, Dorset, a fifteenth- and sixteenth-century church that reuses fabric from nearby Milton Abbey, in the Diocese of Salisbury.
- Location
- Hilton, Dorset
- Country
- England
- County
- Dorset
- City / town
- Hilton
- Address
- Village Road, Hilton, Dorset, DT11 0DG
- Postcode
- DT11 0DG
- Built
- Possible 12th-century origin; west tower and south porch late 15th century; nave, aisles and chancel largely rebuilt 16th century (south aisle widened 1569); chancel restored and vestry added 19th century
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- All Saints
- Diocese
- Salisbury
- Parish
- Hilton and Ansty
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular; Tudor rebuild
- Materials
- Flint and stone banding; ashlar tower; slate roofs
- Grid reference
- ST 781 029
- Opening hours
- The church is always open during daylight hours.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
The RCHME and Historic England record a church of possible twelfth-century origin (attested by a square twelfth-century font and fragments of twelfth-century ornament). The ashlar west tower and south porch are late fifteenth-century; the porch has a stone fan vault. In the sixteenth century the nave, south aisle and chancel were rebuilt and a north aisle added. The north aisle wall, of six bays with stepped buttresses and gargoyles, is reputedly fifteenth-century work reset from Milton Abbey. Date stones of 1569 mark the widening of the south aisle. The chancel was restored and a vestry added in the nineteenth century.
In the tower are two fifteenth-century painted wood panels of four Apostles, also from Milton Abbey. Other fittings include a pulpit made of reused seventeenth-century panelling and a stone sundial dated 1690. The church was listed Grade I on 14 July 1955 (NHLE 1118613), in the parish of Hilton and Ansty.