STANBRIDGE
(Note: Sometimes known as Hinton Parva)

St. Kenelm

This is a fairly typical Victorian estate church, built entirely at the expense of Sir Richard Glyn who lived nearby in Gaunts House.  Stanbridge itself is a minute hamlet, but the church does have an attractive suite of alms houses in the same style next to it and a large 19c rectory on the opposite side of the road.

It is a small building is of banded stone and flint and the south porch supports a spire.  The style is lightly Norman and it was completed in 1860.  Over the door is a piece of Norman sculpture, which might be of St. Kenelm, to whom the church is dedicated (one of only seven in the country), a  boy saint who was murdered, aged only 7 years.

The church is now redundant.