Saint Aldhelm's Church
SAINT ALDHELM'S CHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120333
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Saint Aldhelm's Church
- Statutory Address:
- SAINT ALDHELM'S CHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120333
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Saint Aldhelm's Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAINT ALDHELM'S CHURCH
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:
- SAINT ALDHELM'S CHURCH
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:
- SY9692694514
Details
SY 99 SE
4/91
LYTCHETT MINSTER
PIT BOTTOM
Saint Aldhelm's Church
II*
Private chapel. Built 1898, Architect G Crickmay, for Lord Eustace
Cecil. Rock-faced ashlar lower walls, with smooth ashlar above, -
nave walls buttressed. Tiled roofs with ornamental ridges. Corbel
course at eaves, with carved heads. Nave, chancel, west tower,
south porch, north vestry. West wall of tower built as a full-width
buttress,with offsets. Pyramidal stone-slate roof with weathervane.
Arched openings to belfry, framing bells. Corbel course below belfry.
2-light windows in lower stage. Porch has pointed-arched opening,
with shafts with moulded caps. Lancet windows to nave. Single and
paired lancets to chancel. Triple lancet east window. Interior has
fairfaced stone walls. Pointed timber barrel ceilings to nave and
chancel. Chancel arch on responds with foliage carving. Semi-
circular tower arch. Simple stone font. Furnishings appear
contemporary. East window glass by Kempe.
See Pevsner "Buildings of England, Dorset". Lytchett Heath.
Listing NGR: SY9692694514
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109001
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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