Parish Church of Saint Nicholas
PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1120262
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1120262
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS
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 SAINT NICHOLAS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Worth Matravers
- National Grid Reference:
- SY9728577450
Details
SY 9777 WORTH MATRAVERS WORTH MATRAVERS VILLAGE
9/122 Parish Church of Saint Nicholas
20-11-59
GV I
Anglican Parish Church. Mainly C12, south wall of chancel rebuilt in C13, east
wall in C14. Porch added in C18. Rubble stone walls, stone slate roofs with
coped gables and corbel tables with carved heads. Nave, chancel, west tower,
south porch. Tower, of 3 stages, has a pyramidal stone slate roof with moulded
corbel table. Small square-headed belfry windows. Rectangular windows to
lowest stage. South wall of nave has shallow buttresses each end and in centre.
2-C12 round-headed windows at high level, one C13 lancet at east end, and a
rectangular window lighting a squint into chancel. Blocked triangular-headed
doorway. Outer door to porch has a flat lintol externally and segmental inner
arch with chevron ornament (re-set). Inner door, C12, has carved tympanum,
badly eroded, and chevron ornament. Some coffin slabs re-set in porch, and
late medieval canopy in east wall. North and south chancel walls each have
2-C13 lancet windows. Priest's door in south wall. East window C14, of 3 lights
with reticulated tracery. North wall of nave has 3.C12 round-headed windows
at high level and a C13 lancet at east end. Square-headed doorway flanked by
shallow buttresses which converge over the door supporting a central buttress. Shallow
buttresses each end of nave. Internally, nave and chancel roofs C19, of King-post
form. C12 chancel arch of 3 orders with chevron ornament, circular shafts and
scalloped capitals. Flanking this, remains of blocked openings. (RCHM consider
this arch removed from elsewhere). In east wall of chancel, piscina with niche
over. Squint in southwall with external window (previously described). 2 small
round-headed windows above chancel arch. Few C18 and early C19 wall tablets.
Font, pulpit and west gallery all C19. A good example of a small C12 church,
largely unaltered. RCHM Monument 1 (Dorset Vol II).
Listing NGR: SY9728577450
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109139
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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