Parish Church of Saint George
PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT GEORGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120308
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint George
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT GEORGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120308
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint George
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT GEORGE, HIGH 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT GEORGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Langton Matravers
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 99828 78890
Details
SY 9978 LANGTON MATRAVERS HIGH STREET (North Side)
6/28 Parish Church of Saint George 20-11-59 GV II
Anglican Parish Church. Tower mid-C15, rest of church rebuilt 1875-6. Architect G Crickmay. Walls of tower rubble stone, body of church of rock-faced ashlar. Tiled roofs with coped gables to nave, chancel, chapel and porch. Flat roofs with parapets to aisles and tower. Nave, north and south aisles of 4 bays, chancel, south chapel, vestry and organ chamber, west tower, south porch. Large C20 vestry extension north of chancel, of stone, with flat roof. Tower of 2 stages, with angle buttresses and battlemented parapet. Octagonal stair turret on south. 2-light traceried windows to belfry, with stone louvres. West doorway altered and raised, flanked by stone corbels. Panelled door with fan- light. North and south aisles have 3-light traceried windows. 2 plain lancets in south wall of chapel. East window of chancel of 3 stepped lancets - the central one traceried. Paired lancets in east and west porch walls, with inner rere-arches and shafts. Internal walls fairfaced. On west wall of nave (east wall of tower) evidence of 2 earlier roof lines. Ridge of present nave roof above top of tower. Nave arcades have plain circular columns with moulded caps. Paired trefoiled lancets to clerestory. Hammerbeam roof to nave, carried on Purbeck marble shafts. A 2-bay arcade each side of chancel, with Purbeck marble shafts and foliage capitals. Font, C13, octagonal, on an octagonal base with attached shafts. All other fittinqs C19. RCHM Monument 1 (Dorset Vol II).
Listing NGR: SY9982878890
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109039
- 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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