CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1152109
Date first listed:: 21-May-1984
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1152109
Date first listed:: 21-May-1984
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Holwell
National Grid Reference:: ST 69940 11966

Details

ST 61 SE HOLWELL THE BOROUGH

2/124 Church of St Lawrence Farmhouse - I

Parish Church, late C15 with chancel, organ chamber and restoration of 1885. 1885 work by Crickmay, Coursed rubble, ashlar dressings. Gable- ended stone slate roofs with stone copings. Plan: nave, chancel, north aisle, south porch, south chapel and south organ chamber. West tower; 3 stages, plinth and embattled parapet; string courses, parapet string with gargoyles; south rectangular vice turret with loops; diagonal west buttress and square set east buttress; west door with moulded 2-centred head, continuous jambs and returned label; west window of 2-lights under 2-centred head with perpendicular tracery and string course continued as a label; bell chamber windows with 2-centred heads, mullions and transomes, of 2-lights with returned labels; crocketted corner finials North aisle and south chapel: embattled with strings bearing gargoyles; main windows of 3-lights under 2-centred heads with 'perpendicular' tracery and stopped labels; north aisle west window of 3-lights and intersecting tracery under a 2-centred heads; north aisle east window is of 2-lights under square head with returned label; organ chamber window of 2-lights under a square head with a returned label. Chancel windows; east of 3-lights with 'perpendicular' tracery under a 2-centred head with a returned label; north windows of 2-lights under square heads with returned labels. Buttresses between most wimdows and at angles. Porch door with 2-centred moulded head with continuous jambs and stopped label. Interior features: 2-centred, moulded chancel, tower and chapel arches with outer orders continuous with jambs and inner order forming respond shaft; Similar Cl9 arch to organ chamber; 4 bay, 2-centred nave arcade having restored late C15 carved angel capitals bearing scrolls; squints to chancel; late Cl7 pulpit with reeded lower panels and fret- work above; piscina in north aisle; Cl5 barrel vault nave roof with ribs and carved bosses springing from chamfered wall plates bearing 3 orders of carved leaf bosses; original flat north aisle roof with intersecting moulded beams forming coffers each of which is subdivided into 4 panels, the beam intersections bearing carved flower bosses; Cl9 ribbed barrel vault to chancel; OS plank south and tower vice doors; monuments oftthe Cl8, Cl9 and C20; some Cl8 panelling; various pieces of medieval carving reset. RCHM, Dorset, vol III, pp 118-121, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset. Penguin, 1972, p 233.

Listing NGR: ST6994211966

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Legacy System number:: 104854
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset III Central, (1970), 118-121
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 233

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.