Yarpole
| Yarpole | |
| Herefordshire | |
|---|---|
 St Leonard's belltower | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SO4664 |
| Location: | 52°16’59"N, 2°46’59"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Leominster |
| Postcode: | HR6 |
| Dialling code: | 01568 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Herefordshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North Herefordshire |
| Website: | http://www.yarpole.com/ |
Yarpole is a village and ancient parish in the Wolphy hundred of Herefordshire. The village is situated about 4½ miles north-west of Leominster, near the county border with Shropshire and about seven miles south-west of Ludlow. Together with Croft it forms part of the civil parish of Croft and Yarpole, which also includes the hamlets of Bicton south of the village, and Bircher north-east of the village.
Parish church
The oldest part of St Leonard's Church of England parish church is the 13th-century font. Most of the building is early 14th-century and was restored and extended to designs by George Gilbert Scott in 1864. It is a Grade-II* listed building.[1] In 2009 the interior of the church was extensively reordered and a community shop and Post Office were built at the west end of the church.[2]
Yarpole is one of several Herefordshire parishes whose belltower stands separate from the church. The ground stage is built of stone; the roofs and upper stage are timber-framed. It is one of a number of partly or largely timber-framed belltowers in Herefordshire. It is a Grade-I listed building. The tower was thought to be 13th-century,[3] but dendrochronology has dated its main timbers to 1192, making it one of the oldest timber-framed structures in England.[4]
Amenities
The village has a pub, The Bell, that is now a gastropub.[5] There is also a parish hall.[6]
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1296754: Church of St Leonard (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ "The Building". The Community Website for Yarpole Parish. http://www.yarpole.com/index.php/the-church/church-building. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1081790: Tower about 15 metres south of Church of St Leonard (Grade I listing)
- ↑ "About Yarpole". The Community Website for Yarpole Parish. http://www.yarpole.com/index.php/82-aboutyarpole. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ↑ Hill, Shaun. "The Bell Inn, Yarpole, Herefordshire". The Guardian (Guardian Media Group). https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2006/aug/05/foodanddrink.shopping3. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ↑ "Flicks in the Sticks". The Community Website for Yarpole Parish. http://www.yarpole.com/index.php/the-parish-hall/flicks. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
Further reading
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). Herefordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 327.
- RCHME, ed (1934). "Yarpole". An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire. 3, North West. London: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. pp. 215–217. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol3/pp215-217.
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