Parish Church of St Cuthbert
PARISH CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119358
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119358
- Date first listed:
- 18-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
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 CUTHBERT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oborne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 65399 18509
Details
OBORNE ST 61 NE OBORNE VILLAGE 6/82 Parish Church of St Cuthbert 18.9.75 GV II Parish Church. Consecration date 1862, by Slater. Ashlar stone walls. Clay-tile roof with gable-ends and stone gable-copings. Stone slate roof to the polygonal-ended chancel. Stone bellcote, on the west gable with stone pyramidal roof. Nave and chancel. Single storey. Nave has three coupled trefoil-headed windows. Two single light trefoil-headed windows to chancel, and one on each face of the apse. Plinth moulding, string under the windows and cornice moulding. South porch to nave, gabled with stone slate roof, stone gable-coping and cross at apex. Pointed arch entrance with attached responds, capitals and bases. Pointed-arch entrance with roll moulding to church. Plank door with strap-hinges. Interior: pointed chancel-arch of two orders with responds. Carved foliated stone capitals. Roof: nave has 4 bays of arch-braced collars, carried on simply moulded stone corbels. Fittings: Font, stone, round bowl with foliate band and a carved roundel at the centre of each side. Short stem with polygonal sides and moulded base. C19. Pulpit, stone and circular with a band of foliate ornament and a bead moulding round the rim, C19. (J Newman and N Pevsner, Dorset, p 306).
Listing NGR: ST6539918509
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105624
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 306
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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