Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118755
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118755
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridport
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 48198 92526
Details
SY 49 SE BOTHENHAMPTON WALDITCH
2/38 CHURCH OF ST MARY
GV II
Parish church. Rebuilt entirely in 1863, (though dated 1809 on
east gable). Rubble stone walls. Slate roofs. Nave and Chancel
North aisle. South porch. Stone gable-copings at west gable and
east gable,west gable with moulded kneelers. Stone sanctus bell-
cote at west gable with a pitched roof. Stone cross at east gable.
One storey. 3 windows (nave), and 2 windows (chancel). Single
lancets with deep-chamfered,jambs. Nave has a 2-light windows
with Y-tracery, and chamfered label over. Lozenge-leaded and
stained glass lights. South porch, of dressed stone with a slate
roof. Stone gable-copings with roll-kneelers and trefoiled apex-
block. Pointed-arch entrance with straight-chamfered jambs, and
a chamfered label over. 2-leaf plank door with strap hinges.
Interior: north arcade of 3 bays with octagonal piers and moulded
capitals. Chancel-arch has 2 pairs of responds and moulded
capitals. Collar-beam roof with king-posts and transverse
strutting. Font: Purbeck marble basin, with fleurons, spread
arrows and blind-arch ornament, c.early Cl3. Stone cylindrical
stem and scalloped base.
RCHM Dorset I, p 30(2).
Listing NGR: SY4819892526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105058
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 30
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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