Church of Unknown Dedication
CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110395
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Unknown Dedication
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110395
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Unknown Dedication
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION
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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 UNKNOWN DEDICATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Orchard
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 82368 16435
Details
ST 81 NW WEST ORCHARD WEST ORCHARD VILLAGE
5/177 Church of Unknown 16.8.60 Dedication
GV II
Parish Church, chancel late C15, rest 1876. 1876 work by T H Wyatt. Squared, dressed greensand. Gabled, tiled roof with stone copings and finials, west bell-cote. C15 work 'Perpendicular' in style, 1876 work part 'Perpendicular' and part 'Decorated'. Plan: nave, chancel, north and south aisles, south porch and north vestry. 1876 fenestration mainly of 2 lights with 2-centred heads and flowing or panel tracery with returned labels. Some lancets. C15 east window of 3 lights under square head with relieving arch; panel tracery. 2 lancets with returned labels to the south. South porch has 2-centred moulded head and continuously moulded jambs. Inner door is 2-centred with continuously moulded jambs and a returned label. A door from the porch to the south aisle has a square moulded head and jambs. Interior features: 2 bays, 2-centred, moulded arcades on octagonal piers with moulded capitals and bases; 2-centred moulded chancel arch on half- piers with moulded capitals and bases; C19 octagonal font with quatrefoil panels on moulded octagonal pier; stone nave/chancel dividing wall with integral stone pulpit bearing trefoil headed panels; ribbed C19 chancel roof with carved bosses springing from dentilled and moulded wall-plate; C19 arch braced collar beam roof with king posts; other fittings C19. In the churchyard is the round bowl of a C12 font. RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 115, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 446.
Listing NGR: ST8236816435
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102807
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 115
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 446
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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