Parish Church of St Martin
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119258
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119258
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, MAIN 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadmayne
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 72844 86645
Details
SY 7286-7386 BROADMAYNE MAIN STREET (north side) 11/5 Parish Church of 26.1.56 St Martin
GV II*
Parish Church. Late C13 chancel, nave and south tower. Top stage of tower built or rebuilt late C15. Church extensively restored 1865-6 by J Hicks of Dorchester when north and east walls of the chancel and the chancel arch were rebuilt. North nave arcade and north aisle and north vestry built 1865-6. Squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, all of Portland stone. Clay tile roofs with stone slate at eaves. Chancel: south wall has two C13 lancets, with a C16 doorway between with chamfered jambs and segmental-pointed head, now blocked. The east wall has a restored triplet of C13 lancets, continuously roll- moulded internally. Rebuilt north wall has a reset C13 lancet. Nave, south wall, east window renewed 1980's to C14 design of two trefoiled ogee lights with a quatrefoil in a two centred head. Western window C15, of two cinquefoiled lights in a square head with moulded reveals and label. West window is C15 of three cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a two centred head. The west doorway has moulded jambs and four centred arch with a label, with one surviving head stop. The north aisle has three windows. Reset in the east wall of the C19 north aisle is a C13 archway. South tower of two stages divided by a restored string, outside and 3 storeys inside. Projecting parapet wall and gargoyles. Ground floor forms the church porch. South wall has a doorway of c. 1300 with chamfered jambs and a pointed arch of two chamfered orders, the inner order merging into the jambs, the outer continuous. Above the doorway is a later blocked window of one trefoiled light. The second storey has in the south wall a window of two paired pointed lights. The bell chamber has an early C16 window of two trefoiled lights in a square head with a label. Interior: roofs, of arch traced form carried on carved angel- corbels, C19. Fittings: font octagonal bowl of Portland stone with shafted angles, quatrefoil in each face, panelled stem and moulded base, C15. Piscina in chancel, c.1300. Nave, south wall, c.1300. Wall tablets in chancel, C19. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p.30 (1)).
Listing NGR: SY7284486645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105894
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 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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