Church of the Ascension
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, VERWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120073
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Ascension
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, VERWOOD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120073
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Ascension
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, VERWOOD ROAD
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 THE ASCENSION, VERWOOD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodlands
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 05078 09016
Details
WOODLANDS SU OO NE VERWOOD ROAD (south side)
6/160 Church of the Ascension 18.3.55
GV II
Anglican Parish Church. Built 1892 for the Countess of Shaftesbury. Architect, G F Bodley. Brick walls with stone dressings, tiled roof. Stone bellcote set longitudinally at junction of nave and chancel. Double nave and chancel with no structural division, and central arcade, north porch, and vestry south of chancel. North elevation has, at west end, porch with coped gable. Pointed arched doorway flanked by stone buttresses. In north wall of church, 2 square headed 3-light windows with ogee tracery. East wall has central buttress with gabled top, and two 2-light pointed arched windows with ogee tracery. On south side, at east end, vestry with flat roof and moulded parapet. In south wall of church 2 square headed windows as in north wall. West gable wall has central buttress and two 2-light pointed arched windows with curvilinear tracery. Foundation stone dated 1891. Internally, walls plastered. Central arcade of 5 bays - the eastern 1½ bays forming chancel. Roof with colour decoration, and principals supported on arcade wall. Arcade with octagonal columns, moulded caps and chamfered arches. Carved oak chancel screen by Bodley. Carved and painted timber altar and reredos. Mural paintings in chancel. C12 circular stone font on C20 base, from the former Church at Knowlton (qv). (R.C.H.M. Monument 2. Dorset Vol II. Newman and Pevsner "Buildings of England. Dorset").
Listing NGR: SU0507809016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107619
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972)
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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