Parish Church of St James
PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES, MILTON ABBAS, BLANDFORD FORUM, DT11 0BP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118560
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES, MILTON ABBAS, BLANDFORD FORUM, DT11 0BP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118560
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES, MILTON ABBAS, BLANDFORD FORUM, DT11 0BP
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES, MILTON ABBAS, BLANDFORD FORUM, DT11 0BP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton Abbas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 80648 01785
Details
ST 8001
13/121
MILTON ABBAS (South-east side)
Parish Church of Saint James
14-7-55
GV
II*
Anglican Parish Church. c1786, probably by James Wyatt. South aisle and vestry added, and chancel enlarged c1886, by W J Fletcher.
Ashlar stone walls with simple plinth. Aisle and vestry of stone and flint banding. Nave and aisle roofs slated, chancel roof tiled, with crested ridge - all with coped gables. Nave, chancel, south vestry, south aisle of three bays, west tower.
Tower of three stages, with battlemented parapet and corner pinnacles. Moulded string courses at each stage. Belfry has two-light windows with Y-tracery lower sections louvred. Centre stage has clock in north face and quatrefoil panel in west face. In lowest stage, north face has a two-light window with Y-tracery. Pointed-arched west door in square frame, with Coats of Arms in spandrils. North wall of nave has three three-light windows with intersecting tracery. North wall of chancel has one two-light window with Y-tracery and one trefoiled lancet. East window of chancel three-light, with geometrical tracery. South wall of chancel has one trefoiled lancet. South aisle has three three-light square-headed windows with trefoiled lights. Four-centred arched doorway to vestry.
Interior - walls plastered. Chancel has a C19 arch-braced collar beam roof. Nave has a C19 hammer-beam roof. Simple lean-to roof to aisle. South arcade has moulded arches, and circular columns with capitals left rough for carving. Chancel arch has continuous mouldings - no capitals or imposts. Font, probably C13, octagonal, on pier with detached shafts. Pulpit late C18. Marble charity tablet, 1844, on west wall of nave. East window by Laurence Lee 1969-70.
RCHM, Monument 2. (Dorset. Vol.III)
Listing NGR: ST8064801785
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103538
- 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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