PARISH CHURCH OF STS PETER AND PAUL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1118863
Date first listed:: 21-May-1984
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF STS PETER AND PAUL
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF STS PETER AND PAUL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1118863
Date first listed:: 21-May-1984
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF STS PETER AND PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF STS PETER AND PAUL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF STS PETER AND PAUL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Caundle Marsh
National Grid Reference:: ST 67783 13234

Details

ST 61 SE CAUNDLE MARSH CAUNDLE MARSH VILLAGE

2/75 Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul GV II

Parish Church 1857 by R H Shout. Squared, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Roof of plain and scalloped tiles; gable ends with stone copings and cross finials. Plan: nave, chancel and north porch; bell cote between nave and chancel. Nave windows each of 2 pointed, trefoiled lights with labels. West nave window of 3-lights under 2-centred head with label; 'decorated' tracery with 2 quatrefoils. Chancel windows each of 2 rounded, trefoiled lights with returned labels. East chancel window of 3-lights under a 2-centred head with label having carved stops; 'decorated' tracery with large trefoil. Diagonal buttresses at angles and square set buttresses at division of nave and chancel. Coved ashlar cornice. Porch is gabled, of open timberwork on a rubble case. South chancel door has moulded 2-centred head with continuous jambs; label has ballflower stops. Internal features: 2-centred, moulded chancel arch springing from short respond shafts with capitals on carved angel corbels; chancel rerearches are supported on free standing shafts; central mullions of windows bear carved heads; north door has shouldered rere-arch; waggon roof to chancel, arch braced collar roof to nave, both on ashlar pieces; stone pulput of 1920 with fielded panels; possibly C2O octagonal font with quatrefoils bearing floral motifs; stone altar rails and dividing walls under chancel arch; C17 table tomb bearing coat of arms set under 4-centred arch in north chancel wall; piscina in chancel; various C19 and c2O monuments. RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 55, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England; Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 132. Pitfield, F P, Dorset Parish Churches A-D, Dorset Publishing Company, 1981, pp 155-6. Architectural Plans with a few Sketches of Old Buildings by Mr Shout, Architect, deposited in the County Museum, Dorchester.

Listing NGR: ST6778313234

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 104798
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset III Central, (1970), 55
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 132
Pitfield, FP , Dorset Parish Churches, (1981), 155-156

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.