Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110455
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110455
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH
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:
- CHRIST CHURCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Stour
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 79867 22837
Details
ST 72 SE EAST STOUR
2/8 Christ Church 16.8.60 GV II
Parish church, 1842 by G Alexander. Ashlar walls with greensand ashlar dressings. Slate, gable-ended roofs with stone copings. Cruciform plan with central tower. In the 'neo-Norman' style. Plan: nave, chancel, crossing, north and south transepts, south vestry and north porch. Standard windows are of single, round headed lights with shafted jambs having cushion capitals. More important windows are of 2 round headed lights with shafted jambs and central piers (with cushion capitals). They have an outer round arch with similar shafted jambs. East window is of 3 round-headed lights, the innermost having shafted jambs. Minor windows of single round headed lights. Round headed doorways of 2 orders the inner supported on a scalloped capital shaft and the outer on a cushioned capital shaft. Octagonal vice turrets to west of each transept having shouldered doorways and round headed loops. Simple corbel tables to chancel and tower. Interior features: Round crossing arches springing from shafts with scalloped capitals; galleries with wooden, round arched balustrades in trancepts; beamed roofs to chancel and transepts; tie beam nave roof with supporting columns carrying round arches springing from tie beams; C12 square font with arcading on central round shaft with 4 supporting shafts; C19 pews and pulpit; C19 glass. RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 16, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner, N. Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin 1972, p 198.
Listing NGR: ST7986722837
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102639
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 16
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 198
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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