Parish Church of Saint Andrew
PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118618
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118618
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT ANDREW, CHURCH HILL
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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 SAINT ANDREW, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milborne St. Andrew
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 80118 97401
Details
MILBORNE SAINT ANDREW SY8097 CHURCH HILL
Parish Church of 11/58 Saint Andrew 14-7-55 II*
Anglican Parish Church. C12 origin, tower and porch C15; chancel, vestry, south aisle and chapel c1876 - architect G E Street. Walls - nave of flint, rest of church of flint and stone banding, with stone dressings. Tiled roofs, with coped gables and ornamental ridges. Nave, north aisle of 3 bays, north chapel of 2 bays, chancel with vestry on north, west tower, south porch. Tower of 2 stages, with battlemented parapet and diagonal buttresses. Semi-octagonal stair turret on north. String courses at base of parapet and below belfry windows. 2-light C15 traceried windows to belfry. West window C19, of 3 lights, in C15 style, with hoodmould. Porch has moulded pointed arched opening, with sundial over. South wall of nave has, west of porch, a C19, 2-light square- headed window with arched lights. East of porch a C16, 3-light window of similar design. South wall of chancel, with centre buttress, has 2, C19 lancets. East window of chancel, a re-set C13, triple lancet, with hoodmould. C19 triple lancet in east wall of vestry. Single lancet in south wall. North chapel has twin lancets - all C19. North aisle wall has two 2-light windows with plate tracery. Trefoil-headed door to undercroft in west wall of aisle. Inner door to porch, C12, of 2 orders, with chevron and nail-head ornament. Alternate voussoirs of Purbeck and Ham Stone producing polychrome effect. Shafts with enriched scalloped caps. Oak door with ornamental ironwork - possibly by Street.
Internally, chancel has C19 pointed waggon roof. Re-set C13 piscina in south wall. Aisle and chapel arcades have circular columns with moulded caps. Original chancel arch re-set at vestry entrance, C12, pointed, with chevron ornament. Nave has a C15 waggon roof with moulded ribs - plaster panels gone. Carved bosses, and pointed cartouches along cornice Tower arch C15, segmental pointed. Font, C12, of tub form, with cable moulding. Second C19 font in tower. In north wall of chancel, early C16 monument to John Morton with crested canopy and indents of vanished brasses. Several good C18 wall monuments to members of the Morton- Pleydell family, in vestry, tower and at west end of nave. Pews, pulpits, choirstalls, all C19. RCHM Monument 1. (Dorset. Vol.III).
Listing NGR: SY8011897401
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103473
- 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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