Parish Church of All Saints
PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119366
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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- 1999-09-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/01594/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119366
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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 ALL SAINTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poyntington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 65019 19972
Details
POYNTINGTON ST 61 NE POYNTINGTON VILLAGE 6/107 Parish Church of All Saints 31.7.61 GV I Parish Church. C12 nave walling, C14 south aisle, north porch, west tower, with top stage added in C15. Chancel with south vestry rebuilt 1863. Tower again restored in 1905-6. Local rubble walls, with freestone dressings. Clay-tile roofs to nave and chancel. Nave: square C14 buttress at junction with chancel. Eastern window, C14, of 2 trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in a 2-centred head with a label. C16 middle window is of 3 three-centred lights in a square head. C14 west window has a trefoil in the head. The north doorway has a square-headed inner, and a plain semi-circular outer order, with moulded label. Jamb-shafts with moulded bases and volute capitals. Plain tympanum. North porch, C14, with two-centred outer archway of 2 orders. West tower, two stages, with a plain parapet, gargoyles and turret rising above the parapet. West window is of 3 trefoiled ogee lights with reticulated tracery in a two-centred head with a label. Bell-chamber has in each wall an early C15 window of 2 trefoiled lights with a trefoil in a 2-centred head, with a label. South aisle, C14, has an early C16 east window of four triangular-headed lights in a square head. The south wall has 2 partly restored C14 2-light windows with square heads. The south doorway has C14 jambs of 2 moulded orders, with the 4-centred arch a later alteration. West wall has an early C14 window of two pointed lights in a pointed head. Chancel has a polygonal east end. North wall has two 2-light trefoiled lancets with quatrefoil in head. Keeled label over with head-stops. Windows round the apse have trefoils and spherical triangles in the heads. Polygonal south vestry off south wall of the chancel. Continuous string under the chancel windows. Interior: nave roof late C15 of segmental barrel form with moulded ribs forming 5 bays each of 4 panels. The intersections have foliated bosses, and the moulded plates have carved paterae. C15 roof of the south aisle is of pent form, and compartmented with moulded beams. Below the wall-plates are 7 C14 head-corbels. Chancel: the windows have Purbeck nook-shafts with foliage capitals and abaci, cusped reve-arches, filled with roll and ball flower ornament in the hollows. C19 piscina and carved credence shelf. Fittings: font, tapering cylindrical bowl, with band of cable-ornament, C12. Piscinae: two of the C14 in nave and south aisle. Recesses, for tombs, in south aisle, two with moulded jambs, cinquefoiled 4-centred arches and defaced labels, C14. Monuments and floor-slabs, C17 and C18. Seating: pews with moulded styles and tops, C17. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 186.(1)).
Listing NGR: ST6501819972
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105649
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 186
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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