CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1110840
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1953
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1110840
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1953
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tarrant Crawford
National Grid Reference:: ST9229803471

Details

TARRANT CRAWFORD ST 90 SW 5/25 Church of St Mary 26.6.53 GV I

Parish church, C12 chancel, C13 nave and refenestration, porch and further refenestration C15, tower and nave roof early C16. Flint and rubble, in part banded with ashlar dressings, part rendered. Tiled and stone-slate roofs. Plan: nave; chancel; west tower, north porch. West tower; unbuttressed, of 2 stages, separated by weathered strings; 2-light pointed west window with Y tracery; 2-light Perpendicular, square-headed belfry windows with returns from parapet string which serves as a label; embattled parapet. Nave and chancel have mainly C13 2-light, trefoiled windows. The north nave has 2 Perpendiular tracery 2 and 3-light windows under squared heads, that to the west with a stopped label. The east window is of 3 graduated lancets under a common pointed head. South chancel wall has a blocked C12 doorway with a rebuilt, pointed head. The south nave wall has a C13 chamfered, pointed doorway, now blocked. North doorway is of a similar pattern. The porch has a pointed arch of 2 chamfered orders dying into the responds.

Interior features: pointed tower arch of one chamfered order dying into responds; C16 wagon roof with arched braced trusses and chamfered wall-plates to nave; C19 collar-beam truss to chancel; late C17 communion rails with turned balusters; C17 panelling reset as dado in chancel; altar flanked by 2 reset C13 coffin lids; other C13 coffin lids reused in other parts of the church; C17 octagonal pulpit with 2 levels of panelling and chip carved guilloche frieze; pews of reused C17 moulded panelling; early C14 wall paintings one set depicting acts of St Margaret of Antioch and another an allegory of three living and three dead plus other smaller fragments; 2 medieval piscinae; C16 square font on square pedestal with C16 pyramidal timber cover; reset medieval chancels with slip decoration in chancel; some C15 glass.

A very unspoilt church retaining many medieval features. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.IV, p.86/7, no.1. Newman, J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England; Dorset, 1972, p.416.)

Listing NGR: ST9229803471

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 103746
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 86-87
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 416

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.