Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CAUNDLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1118887
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CAUNDLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1118887
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CAUNDLE STREET
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 PETER AND ST PAUL, CAUNDLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Caundle
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 69618 13157
Details
ST 61 SE BISHOP'S CAUNDLE CAUNDLE STREET (SOUTH SIDE)
2/35 31-7-61 Church of St Peter and St Paul
GV I
Parish church, parts of chancel arch and parts of nave wall and south aisle C14; tower and parts of nave and south aisle C15; chancel, south porch, parts of nave and general restoration 1863-4. C19 work by W. Slater. Coursed rubble walls with ashlar dressings. Nave roof is tiled with stone slate verges and gable ends. South aisle, chancel and north porch are stone slated. Stone copings. Plan: chancel, nave, west tower, south aisle and north porch. Tower; 3 stages separated by string courses; embattled parapet with crocketted finials; diagonal buttresses; north vice turret, rectangular in section below and octagonal above lit by rectangular loops; west door with 2-centred, moulded head and continuous jambs; west window of 3-lights with panel tracery under a 2-centred head the label being continuous with the string course; 2nd stage has a small north 2-light window under a 2-centred head; 3rd stage has 2-centred, 2-light mullioned and transomed windows with the lower parts of each light filled with pierced stone panels; parapet string bears gargoyles. Nave windows are of 3-lights with panel tracery under 2-centred heads, that to the east being C15 reset. South aisle windows of 3-lights with panel tracery under segmental pointed heads with returned labels. The east window of the south aisle is of C14 and has 2 lights with a quatrefoil under a 2-centre head with a returned label. Chancel windows are under 2-centred heads and have Y-tracery and returned labels, that to the east being of 3-lights and the other being of two. The porch has a moulded 2-centred arch partly continuous with the jambs. The north door has a 2-centred, moulded head with continuous jambs. Internal features: 2-centred chancel arch of 2 straight chamfered orders; nave arcade of 3 2-centred arches of 2 straight chamfered orders with small inserted arch to east; 2-centred, mulded truer arch with blind trefoiled tracery to the archivolt; piscinae in chancel and aisle; rebated, 2-centred rood vice door; roofs are barrel vaults with carved bosses; C15 octagonal font with quatrefoils bearing shields and roses on octagonal pier with trefoiled panels; various C18 and Cl9 monuments including large tablet to D'Aubenys and Herberts by King of Bath; C19 stone pulpit and reredos probably by Forsyth; other fittings largely C19. RCHM Dorset, vol III, pp 13-15, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin 1975, pp 94-5. Pitfield, F P Dorset Parish Churches A-D, Dorset Publishing Company, 1981, pp 68-71 Brocklebank, J Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856 - 1880, Dovecote, 1979, p 3B.
Listing NGR: ST6961813155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104759
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset III Central, (1970), 13-15
Pitfield, FP, Dorset Parish Churches, (1981), 68-71
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 94-95
Brocklebank, J, Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-1880, (1979), 38
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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