We use cookies to improve your experience, some are essential for the operation of this site.

Bolstone, Herefordshire

Location
(51°59′30″N, 2°39′13″W)
Bolstone
SO 552 328
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Herefordshire
now Herefordshire
medieval Hereford
now Hereford
medieval not confirmed
  • George Zarnecki

Please use this link to cite this page - https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=13377.

Find out how to cite the CRSBI website here.

Feature Sets
Description

The only surviving Romanesque feature is a doorway incorporated in the N wall of the nave.

History

The church was built in the 12thc. (RCHME I, p. 25) but, according to Pevsner (p. 78), it was rebuilt in 1877. The church is now redundant.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Comments/Opinions

The dragons' heads are closely related to, but cruder than those found at Malmesbury (Wiltshire) and Elstone (Gloucester).

Bibliography

Herefordshire Sites and Monuments, Record 6775.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, Harmondsworth, 1963, 78.

RCHME, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 1: South-west, 1931, 24-25.