Parish Church of Saint Mary, Including Boundary Wall
PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL, HIGHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120559
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Mary, Including Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL, HIGHER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120559
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Mary, Including Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL, HIGHER STREET
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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 OF SAINT MARY, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL, HIGHER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Morden
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 91610 95607
Details
SY 99 NW MORDEN HIGHER STREET, NORTH SIDE
3/144 Parish Church of Saint Mary, 20/11/59 including boundary wall GV II
Parish Church. Lower part of tower C13 - the rest rebuilt 1873 - architect and builder Joseph Siller. Ironstone walls with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with coped gables. Clerestoried nave with north and south aisles, chancel with north and south aisles, south porch, west tower. Tower has battlemented parapet and angle buttresses. Single-light traceried windows to belfry; plain louvred windows belay these. Blocked doorway in south wall. Aisles and nave clerestory have 3-light square-headed windows with curvi- linear tracery and cast iron glazing. Doorway in south chancel aisle with pointed arch and carved imposts. Porch gable has quatrefoil panels. Pointed arched doorway with canopied niche over. Grotesque carved kneelers to east gables of nave and chancel. Pointed arched east window with Perpendicular style tracery.
Internally, nave arcade of 5 bays has columns of quatrefoil plan with carved caps. Flat ceiling to nave and lean-tos to aisles, with plain beams. Chancel has pointed barrel roof with moulded ribs.
C12 font with octagonal bowl on C19 base. Monument to Sir Thomas Earle at west end, dated 1597 - part each side of tower arch - kneeling figure on north and 3 half-length figures on south - all on later pedestals. Early C19 hatch- ment in north aisle.
Boundary wall to churchyard, of ironstone. Plain square piers - all with weathered capping. RCHM Monument 1.
Listing NGR: SY9161095607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108422
- 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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