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St Mary

Hope under Dinmore

Herefordshire

C14 or earlier origins, part rebuilt C18, restored 1879- 1896 by F R Kempson of Hereford.

Architectural Features

machine tiled roofs with stone ridge tiles to nave, elsewhere decorative ridge tiles and parapets at gable ends with cross and gabled finials.

Nave: there are no medieval features other than a cusped lancet at the eastern end of the south wall which is partly C14.

Tower arch of two orders, inner order on moulded corbels and there is a hoodmould with carved stops and a string at impost level.

The stone font is probably late C13 and has an octagonal bowl with cusped arcading, foliated spandrels and relief carvings of Christ, St Peter and St Paul and others.

The stem is panelled and moulded and there is a late C17 cover.

Pulpit is C19 and has traciered, arcaded, blind panelling.

Memorials: C18 memorial in north gable of chapel to Coningsby family ascribed to Roubiliac.

It has two large figures of the Earl, his wife and son, died 1708 seated before two pairs of Corinthian pilasters supporting an open segmental pediment and coat of arms and framing a baldacchino draped relief background.

In the nave is an oval memorial to Joshua Meats, died 1816 and a mid-C18 memorial to the Tayler family.

In the tower there is a memorial to Francis Evans, died 1732, a late C18 memorial to the Green family and an ornate mid-C19 memorial to Sophia Philips, died 1837.

Glass: a south window of the tower has a C13 or C14 foliated quarry. (RCHM., Herefs III, p 67-8, item 1