Parish Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1118659
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1118659
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL
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 SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cattistock
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 59146 99525
Details
SY 5999
10/14
26.1.56
CATTISTOCK
CATTISTOCK CHURCHYARD
Parish Church of SS. Peter and Paul
GV
I
Parish Church. C15 remains, C17 north chapel walls and ceiling.
1857 rebuilding under Sir George Gilbert Scott, involved rebuild
of chancel, nave arches to north and south chapels, addition of
a south aisle and arcade, insertion of the west window. (Faculty,
November 1856). Work of 1873 under George Gilbert Scott, junior:
removel of old tower, construction of a north aisle, addition of
north porch, west tower, and range of vestry accommodation.
(Faculty, October 1872). Rubble and banded stone walls, dressed,
stone quoins. Plain clay-tile roofs. Stone gable copings with
crosses at apices. Chancel: two bays and 3 - sided east end,
with angle-shafts and foilage capitals. Two-light windows with
plate tracery heads. Single-light in the apse with trefoiled
head, under lancet. Continuous corbel-table. Windows of similar
form to the south aisle. Windows of north chapel of late
Perpendicular form, probably C17. North-west tower, modelled on
Charminster church tower, lower basement storey. Double-plinth,
set-back buttresses and 6-stage tower. Bell-openings, 3-stage,
not conforming with buttress set-offs. 4-lights width, double-
transomed, with central standard to full height, panelled tracery
in a rectangular head, open work crenellated parapet, with corner
panelled finials and croketed pinnacles. North porch, with open
pointed entrances on the north and west sides, diagonal buttressing.
Interior: Chancel-arch: "elaborately moulded, the central
moulding springing from short clusters of 3 marble shafts".
(Pitfield). Roofs: chancel, "exposed trussed rafters, and
diagonal roof boarding". Nave roof "is in 3 main bays divided
by arch-braced principals with cross-trussed rafters below
plastered soffits; and the double-pitched roofs of the south
aisle and chapel are similar". Tower, used as baptistery, font
of marble with a slightly tapering square bowl, on a circular
central stem, with 4 smaller corner columns. Font cover, massive,
wood and gilded, 3 tiers with traceried sides, ending in a
crocketed pinnacle. Stone screen and iron grille to north.
Stencilled designs and texts. Ceiling, divided into 16 panels,
painted and decorated with stencilled designs. Tall belfry
designed to accommodate carillon of 35 bells cast by Van
Aerschodt of Louvain, not replaced after 1940. Stained Glass,
South aisle, window of 1882 by Morris, 6 angels in red and white
ibber against a dark blue background. Sculpture: small piece of
Saxon interlace in the chancel north wall. Attached Vestry block
to south-west over-basement, Perp. detailing.
(RCHM Dorset I, p71(1). F. P. Pitfield, Dorset Churches A-D
(1981). 152-155.N. Pevsner and J. Newman, Dorset, 130-131).
Listing NGR: SY5914699525
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105339
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 71
Pitfield, FP, Dorset Parish Churches, (1981), 152-155
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 130-131
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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