Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1152142
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1152142
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Stour
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78464 22907
Details
ST 72 SE WEST STOUR WEST STOUR VILLAGE
2/186 Church of St Mary 16.8.60 GV II*
Parish church, C13 chancel with C18 alterations, nave and south tower/porch 1840. Squared, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Nave roof is slated with stone copings, chancel roof stone slated with stone copings. South chancel has to the left a C14 2-centred window with cusped, Y-tracery of 2-lights. Right is a trefoiled lancet. Between is a door with a chamfered, 2-centred head. To the north are 2 plain lancets. East window is C18 (RCHM), of 3-lights with coarse panelled tracery under a square head with returned label. The nave windows are C19 lancets. Single stage, embattled tower with lancet bell openings with pierced iron panels. South porch has chamfered, 2-centred archway with returned label. Internal features: 2-centred, chamfered chancel arch with continuous jambs; 4-centred section, panelled ceiling with moulded ribs and wall plates; chancel has barrel vault with moulded ribs; C19 west gallery with cusped, carved panelling; C13 font with octagonal bowl on round pier with subsidiary shafts; trefoiled piscina in chancel; C17 panelled pulpit with guilloche frieze; C16 carved panelling reset in gallery and vesting cubicle; C18 floorslab; other features largely Cl9. RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 116, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 449.
Listing NGR: ST7846422907
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102816
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 116
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 449
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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