Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1110176
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1110176
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blandford St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 89168 05271
Details
BIANDFORD ST MARYLOWER ST 80 NE LOWER BLANDFORD
5/3 Church of St Mary 14-7-55 GV II*
Parish Church, C14 west tower, C15 chancel; south aisle and porch 1837; north aisle and transept 1862; vestry 1908. Rubble, banded flint and rubble and chequerwork flint and ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slated and tiled roofs with end stone copings. Plan; nave; chancel; west tower; south aisle and porch; north aisle, transept and vestry. Both medieval and C19 work mainly in the Perpendicular style. West tower: 3-stage, embattled and unbuttressed with moulded strings; C19 south door with chamfered, 4-centred head; west window of 2 pointed lights; single-light belfry windows with chamfered, pointed heads. South aisle windows are pointed, of 2-lights and have labels with carved foliage stops. Chancel south wall has an original 2-light square headed window with stopped label west and a C19 single light window with carved stopped label. Central, blocked, pointed chamfered door. East chancel and north transept windows are C19, pointed, of 3-lights with carved foliage labels. Vestry has 2-light, square headed windows and pointed, chamfered door. North aisle has 2 trefoiled lancets north and a 2-light perpendicular west window. Porch is gabled with a chamfered, pointed arch and a label with carved stops. The south door is pointed and moulded with continuous jambs. Internally the south arcade is of 3 bays with pointed, moulded arches, round columns with moulded capitals and bases. The north aisle arcade is similar, of 2 bays with simpler mouldings. Pointed transept arch with respond piers. Pointed chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders springing from corbels. Pointed tower arch of 2 chamfered orders. Nave and south aisle have plastered waggon roof. Chancel has ribbed waggon roof; transept has collar-truss roof. C19 carved wooden reredos with ogee-headed niches. Communion rails with carved vine scrollwork. Ogee headed trefoil piscina. C19 open traceried pulpit. Fielded panel pews possibly incorporating C18 woodwork. C19 octagonal font with quatrefoils and trefoiled panels. Various C17, C18 and C19 monuments including one of 1758 to Francis Cartwright the architect. (R.C.H.M. Dorset, vol. III, p.40/1, no. 1. Newman, J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.101.)
Listing NGR: ST8916805271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103284
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 40-41
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 101
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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