Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118941
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- 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:
- 1118941
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- 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:
- Marshwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 38267 99614
Details
SY 39 NE MARSHWOOD MARSHALSEA 5/19 Church of St Mary II Parish Church. West Tower 1841, rest rebuilt in 1884 by G. Vialls. Rubble walls with lias stone ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. West Tower to north, Nave, South Aisle, Chancel, Vestry at west end to south. Entrance through west doorway of tower. West Tower of three stages with plain stone parapet. Tall lancet bell-openings with foiled cross-in-circle motif above. Diagonal buttresses with alternating dressed stones and rubble-work. Nave windows: paired lancets, straight-chamfered. Chancel lancets with hood-mould over. Two north wall buttresses. Interior: Nave with 3-bay south arcade carried on round piers. Capitals with stiff-leaf foliage and pecking birds. Chancel of two bays, division with nave suggested by dado and Purbeck shafts to left and right. East window of three lancets with Purbeck-shaft framing. Roof, of scissor-brace construction with ashlaring, unceiled. South aisle with transverse internal buttresses. Font: stone, octagonal with irregular quatrefoils. Pulpit: with simple turned framing in wood. Brass reading stand in pulpit. Sedilia: very plain, stone, with trefoil heads. Source: Pevsner, Dorset, P. 271.
Listing NGR: SY3826799614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104582
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 271
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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