Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118552
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118552
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterborne Zelston
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 89901 97701
Details
WINTERBORNE ZELSTON SY 8997 VILLAGE CENTRE
16/199 Parish Church of 14-7-55 Saint Mary
GV II
Anglican parish church. Tower C15, rest of church rebuilt 1866, re-using some old materials, architect T H Wyatt. Tower of rubble stone, rest of church of flint and stone banding, with chamfered plinth. Slate roofs with coped gables. Nave, chancel, north aisle, west tower, south vestry, south porch. Tower, of 3 stages, with battlemented parapet. Single-light window to belfry, with hoodmoulds. Carved gargoyle on west wall. String courses at each stage and below west window. West window of 2 lights, square-headed, with trefoiled lights and label mould. Semi-octagonal stair turret on north. South wall of nave has two 2-light square-headed windows with cinquefoiled lights - one of these C15, also a single-light window. Pointed arched doorway to porch. In south vestry wall a C14 doorway with hoodmould, and a lancet window. In south chancel wall a 2-light window with plate tracery. East window of 3-lights with geometrical tracery and hoodmould. In north chancel wall a lancet, and a 2-light window with plate tracery, both C13. In north aisle wall, two 2-light windows with arched lights. In west wall of aisle a 2-light square-headed window with arched lights, C16. In north nave wall (west of aisle) a 3-light square-headed window with blind spandrils - C16. Internally, chancel has canted wagon roof, with plaster panels, moulded ribs and battlemented cornice. Nave roof arch-braced collar beam, with stone corbels. Aisle roof trussed rafter, with curved braces. Chancel arch segmental - pointed, arch mouldings dying into responds. North aisle, of 2 bays, central octagonal column with moulded cap; arches of 2 orders with hoodmould. Tower arch, C15, of 2 orders. Recess at ground level in north wall of.tower. In west wall of nave, north side, a pointed-arched niche. Font, C19, of stone, octagonal, with quatre- foil panels. Pulpit and pews, C19. (RCHM Monument 1. Dorset, Vol.III.)
Listing NGR: SY8990197701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103615
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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