Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110182
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110182
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS
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 MARTIN, BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bryanston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87481 06969
Details
BRYANSTON ST 80 NE BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS
5/29 Church of St Martin 14-7-55 GV II
Parish church, now school chapel. 1895-8 by E P Warren for Lord Portman. Ashlar faced brick. Stone, slate, tiled and lead roofs with end stone copings. Plant west tower, nave, chancel, south chapel and aisle, north chapel and vestry. Decorated and Perpendicular style. Square-set buttresses. 5-stage west tower with octagonal vice turret and embattled parapet. Pointed west doorway. Belfry openings are double pointed with pierced stone lights except to the south face which has a similar single-light opening. String course continued as a label over the openings. Nave and aisle windows are generally of 3 or (-lights under square or pointed heads with Perpendicular tracery. East chancel window of 5-lights.
Internal features; 4-bay south arcade with pointed arches of 2-chamfered orders dying into elongated octagonal piers. Similar 2 bay north arcade. Pointed tower and chancel arches. Chancel and south chapel have segmental pointed barrel roofs, Nave has collar-truss roof. Aisles have lean-to roofs. C20 octagonal marble font. (F. P. Pitfield, Dorset Parish Churches A-D, 1981, p,125-128. Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.121)
Listing NGR: ST8748606969
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103303
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pitfield, FP, Dorset Parish Churches, (1981), 125-128
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 121
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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