Church of Saint Andrew
CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1118600
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1118600
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW
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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 SAINT ANDREW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Anderson
- National Grid Reference:
- SY8847597424
Details
ANDERSON
SY 89 NE WINTERBORNE TOMSON
7/15 Church of Saint Andrew
14-7-55
GV I
Former parish church; now redundant and vested in the Redundant Churches
Fund. Small single-cell C12 church, re-roofed, and windows inserted in C16,
refurnished in early C18. Flint and rubble stone walls, with chamfered
plinth. Tiled roof with stone eaves courses. Tiled timber bell-cote at
west end. Nave with apsidal sanctuary. In south wall, at west end, a
blocked lancet window. East of this, 3 C16 2-light square-headed windows
with arched lights, under label moulds. 3 shallow pilaster buttresses to
apse - no east window. North wall of nave has a stone buttress covering
a blocked doorway and 2 later brick buttresses. Blocked window at east end.
In west wall a square-headed doorway with chamfered surround. Heavily studded
oak door. Internal walls plastered. Segmental waggon roof, plastered, with
chamfered ribs and bosses, - C16. Later inserted tie-beams. Flagstone floors.
All furnishings early C18. Altar table with barley sugar turned legs. Altar
rails with similar turned balusters, moulded capping rail and newels with
ball finials. Screen with flat top and rectangular framing: - arched opening
giving access to pulpit. Pulpit, oak, with raised panels and sounding board.
Box pews with raised panels. West gallery - late medieval; probably originally
the rood loft, with panelled front. C15 octagonal stone font has had the bowl
reduced in height. On north wall, memorial tablet to restoration of the church
by A R Powys, 193l. On exterior of south wall, memorial stone to A R Powys,
died 1936. Brick wall round churchyard, with piers, and plain coping, probably
C18. Good unspoiled example.
(RCHM Monument 2. Dorset. Vol. III)
Listing NGR: SY8847597424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103428
- 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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