Parish Church
PARISH CHURCH, DORCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120327
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH, DORCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120327
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH, DORCHESTER ROAD
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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, DORCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lytchett Minster and Upton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 96044 93092
Details
LYTCHETT MINSTER DORCHESTER ROAD SY 99 SE NORTH SIDE 4/72 Parish church Dedication Unknown - 20/11/52 II Anglican Parish Church. Tower C15, - rest of church rebuilt 1833-4 by John Tulloch of Wimborne. Tower has ironstone walls - rest of church of buff brick on an ironstone base - possibly incorporating re-used stone from earlier church. Low-pitched slate roofs with coped gables and wide eaves. In Commissioners' Gothic style. Nave, chancel, north vestry, south porch, west tower. Tower of 3 stages, has angle buttresses to lowest stage. Battlemented parapet. Polygonal stair turret on north wall. Belfry has 2-light square- headed windows. Slit window below belfry in south wall. In west wall, doorway altered in C19, - window over this has had tracery removed. South porch has gabled roof, with a pinnacled slate sundial at apex. Carved head below this. Angle buttrusses with octagonal pinnacles. Pointed arched doorway with continuous mouldings. Nave, and north and south chancel walls have pointed arched windows, - originally with Y-tracery - removed from some windows. One window in south wall of nave altered in late Cl9 - now has 4-centred arch. East window of chancel of 3 lights with Perpendicular style tracery. Angle buttresses to nave and chancel.
Porch has plaster quadripartite vault with moulded ribs. Tablet commemorating rebuilding in 1833. Panelled oak inner doors. Canted ceilings to nave and chancel with some ornamental plasterwork. West gallery with panelled front, on timber columns. Early Cl9 carved Royal Arms. Simple C15 octagonal stone font. RCHM Monument 1 (Dorset Vol II)
Listing NGR: SY9604693094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108985
- 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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