Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118488
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1953
- 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:
- 1118488
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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 ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tarrant Rushton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93743 06058
Details
TARRANT RUSHTON ST 90 NW 3/54 - 26.6.53 Church of St Mary GV II* Parish church, early C12 origin; nave extended late C12; early C14 chancel, transepts and small west tower; C15 porch; C19 north vestry and restoration. Flint and rubble walls, part chequerwork and part banded, part rendered. Greensand and heathstone ashlar dressings. Tiled roofs. Greek cross plan with north and south transepts, chancel nave, south porch, west tower and north vestry. West tower: single stage with pyramidal, tiled roof; C14 3-light west window with reticulated tracery. Vestry has pointed chamfered door and single-trefoiled-light window. North transept: reset C13 lancet west; C14 pointed, 2-light window; C15 east window with square head and Perpendicular tracery under a label with stops in the form of grotesque masks. Chancel; C14 north window with pointed head, 2 lights and reticulated tracery; similar window to south wall with further small trefoiled window west; restored, pointed east window with reticulated tracery: South transept: square-headed, C15, 3-light east window with Perpendicular tracery and label with King and bishop stops; south window of 2-lights under a square head with jambs tapering towards top. South porch has moulded, pointed arch with continuous jambs and a depressed ogee rere-arch. South face of tower bears carved stone cross.
Interior features: restored C12 round headed chancel arch of one plain order; C14 pointed transept arches of 2 chamfered orders, the innermost dying into the responds; pointed, chamfered tower arch ; C17 north transept roof of 3 arch-braced collar trusses with apex pendants springing from carved timber brackets; C19 queen-strut roofs to nave and south transept (south transept possibly C18); chancel arch flanked by C14 pierced stone hagioscopes; further traceried hagioscope to north ; C14 Decorated niche and piscina in chancel; C18 turned communion rails ; C16 south doorway has reused C12 sculptured lintel of Angus Dei with seated figures; C20 pews and pulpit; wall monument of 1765 to Richard Lawrence rector. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.IV, p,l12/3, no.1. Newman, J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.419-20.)
Listing NGR: ST9374306058
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103774
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 112-113
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 419-420
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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