Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1120181
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1120181
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH 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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 05453 13247
Details
CRANBORNE SU 0513 CHURCH STREET
11/20 Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew 18.3.55
GV I
Parish church. C12 north doorway and parts of south arcade; C14 main body of nave and aisles; C19 work by David Brandon. Flint and rubble with ashlar dressings. Tiled and lead-covered roof, some stone-slated margins. Gable stone copings. Plan: nave; chancel; north and south aisles; west tower; north porch, north vestry, south organ chamber. Nave has 2 clerestorey windows of 3 elliptically headed lights. Aisles have mainly early C14 2-light, windows with ogee-headed lights; east window of south aisle has early C14 window of 3 graduated, trefoiled lights, adjacent is a C15 4-light square-headed window. West tower; massive, of five stages separated by moulded strings; diagonal and square-set buttresses; octagonal south vice-turret; pointed west doorway in moulded, square surround with label having carved stops; 5-light west window with Perpendicular tracery under pointed head; small trefoiled windows to north and south of fourth stage: 2-light belfry windows with Perpendicular tracery under 4-centred heads. C19 parts have mainly paired lancets. The east window is of 5 graduated lancets. Reset north doorway has round head with shafted jambs with scalloped capitals and chevron and nailhead decoration.
Internal features: 6 bay, pointed arcade of 2 chamfered orders, truncated to the west, on alternating octagonal and shafted piers; C19 pointed, moulded chancel arch with shafted jambs; C15 plastered waggon-roof with tie-beams; beamed aisle roofs; C19 waggon roof to chancel; several C14 wall paintings; late C14 or early C15 circular oak pulpit with panelled sides, blind tracery and cornice with carved bosses; c1200 stone font with octagonal bowl with pointed panelled sides on central circular pier surrounded by subsidiary shafts; some reset medieval glass; a number of important monuments notably to Sir Edward Hooper 1678, Ann and Katherine Hooper C17, John Elliott 1641 and John Hawles 1571; a tomb recess in north chancel wall may have been an Easter Sepulchre. Other fittings largely C19. (RCHM, Dorset, V, p.5-7, no. 1. Newman, J and Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.170-1.)
Listing NGR: SU0545513248
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107357
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 5-7
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 170-171
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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