Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1118875
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1118875
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN 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 THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holnest
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 65613 09818
Details
ST 60 NE HOLNEST
5/110 31-7-61 Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
GV I
Parish church, nave of uncertain date, west tower late c14/early C15, south aisle and porch C15, C17 alterations to porch and aisle, chancel and general restoration 1855. Rubble walls with dressed rubble dressings. Roofs: nave is tiled with gable ends having stone copings; chancel is tiled with stone slate verges having a stone coping with cross finial and gable ends; aisle is stone slated having gable ends with stone copings and finial; porch is similar to aisle. West tower: 2 stages and embattled parapet separated by westhered strings; diagonal 2-stage buttresses; west window of 2 cinqufoiled lights with 'perpendicular' tracery and quatrefoil under 2-centred head; south window of one light with a square head projecting into the second stage, the string course becoming a label ; upper stage has to each face a 2 trefoiled light window with 'perpendicular' tracery under a 2-centred head; 2 gargoyles to north face. Nave north face: square-set buttresses; 2 3-light square headed windows with 'perpendicular' tracery: ashlar eaves course. Chancel: east window of 2 cinqufoiled lights under a 2-centred head with returned label; south door has 2-centred, chamfered head with continuous jambs. South aisle: 2 centred head windows of 3-cinqufoiled lights and 'perpendicular' tracery: west C17 window of 2-lights under square head with ovolo-moulded mullions and returned label. Porch: dated 1650 on keystone: 2-centred arch with pendant keystone and apnelled impost blocks. South door: moulded, 2-centred with continuous jambs. Internal features: nave arcade of 2 plain round arches with a square- headed corbelled opening to the east; 2-centred tower arch with flat jambs, one continuous moulded order and another dying into reponds; moulded 2-centred chancel arch with continuous jambs; aisle has original waggon roof with moulded purlins and wall plate; C20 arch- braced collar roof to nave on corbels; porch has original collar truss roof; chancel has boarded rafter roof; C17 octagonal wooden pulpit with reeded panels and chip carving, sounding board missing, cl3 cylindrical font on cylindrical stem; Cl8 box pews with fielded panelling; wall painting in nave with black letter inscription; cl9 encaustic tiles; Cl7 floor slabs in chancel. There are a number of consecration crosses in various locations. RCHM, Dorset, Vol I, p 124, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset. Penguin, 1972, p 232.
Listing NGR: ST6561309820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104833
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1974), 124
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 232
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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