Parish Church of St Peter
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119331
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119331
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
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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 PETER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Purse Caundle
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 69600 17590
Details
PURSE CAUNDLE ST 61 NE - 6/116 Parish Church of St Peter 31.7.61 GV I Parish Church. West tower and chancel-arch, C15. North chapel, early C16. Chancel rebuilt in 1731. 1883, nave and south porch were rebuilt, and windows from former nave reset in chancel. Restorations: chancel, 1896. Tower, 1905. Squared rubble-stone walls with ashlar dressings. Clay-tile roofs. West tower: of 3 stages divided by strings, moulded plinth and embattled parapet. Diagonal buttresses to the lower stage. Upper stages has an angle pilaster continuing as a pinnacle with crocketed finial. Rectangular stair-turret at the south-east corner. West doorway has a chamfered four-centred head under a square label. West window is of two trefoil-headed lights with vertical tracery in a pointed head with a label. Second stage: square-headed window in west wall. Bell-chamber has a partly- restored window of 2 trefoil-headed lights. Nave incorporates earlier material. Two 3-light windows to north and south walls. The south doorway, reset late C14 has a chamfered two-centred head and continuous jambs with shaped stops. Chancel: has a 2-light east window with pointed head, C19. Stone with the inscription GKM 1820 in the gable head. South wall has 2 C15 windows. Eastern window of 3 pointed lights in a square head and with a casement-moulded surround. West window has two ogee-headed lights with blank sheilds in the central spandrels, square-headed and with casement- moulding. North chapel: diagonal buttresses with set-offs at the eastern corners. East wall, has a window of 3 transomed lights with a 4-centred head. Cinquefoil cusping under the transoms and cinquefoil ogee heads to the lights with panel tracery over. Label with head stops. North wall has a similar window. South porch, 1883, has a reset C15 archway with an ogee- moulded four-centred head with continuous jambs. Interior: Chancel-arch, C15, has moulded and panelled responds and soffit, two panels wide, with trefoiled heads to the panels. The base mouldings of the responds have been cut back to form vertical surfaces. Roofs: C19 construction. Font, stone octagonal bowl with panel on each face, bossed underside, stem and base, C15. Brasses, reset in chancel and in north chapel, C16. Communion rails, C17. Communion table, C17. Bible, black-letter of c 1630, north chapel. Pulpit, hexagonal with fielded-panels and sounding-board, early C18. Monuments and floor-slabs. Canopied table-tomb, ascribed to William Long, 1524. (RCHM). Stone slabs and tablets to Hoskyns family, C17 and C18. Hatchment, with arms of Hoskyns impaling Seymer, dated 1694. (RCHM, Dorset III, p 234(1)).
Listing NGR: ST6960117590
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105658
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 234
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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