Parish Church
PARISH CHURCH, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152216
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152216
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH, CHURCH HILL
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:
- PARISH CHURCH, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Swanage
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 02723 78776
Details
CHURCH HILL 1. 5190 Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin SZ 0278 NE 5/35 26.6.52 (formerly listed as Church of St Mary) II GV
2. The tower is medieval. The rest of the Church was rebuilt by T H Wyatt in 1859-60 and enlarged in 1906-8 by Clifton and Robinson (Pevsner). Purbeck Stone walls and roofs. In plan, the Church has nave, north aisle of 2 bays, transepts, chancel, organ chamber at east end of north aisle, south porch and west tower. There are galleries in the transepts. The 3 lower stages of the tower are of the C14, and the top stage c 1620. It is a plain structure, unbuttressed with small plain windows and a parapet without battlements. The roof is lead covered. The body of the Church is in a Gothic Revival style. The nave and aisle have separate gabled roofs, with a central valley gutter. The main entrance is at the west end of the aisle and has a shallow portico with a doorway in Early English style. Above this is a large window with Perpendicular tracery. The nave and aisle window are of similar design. There are rose windows in the organ chamber and transept sables. An octagonal turret with stone spire adjoins the north transept. Internally, the walls are plastered. The roofs are of pine, of arch-braced collar-beam design. A number of C18 wall monument survive from the earlier Church. C19 marble font. The churchyard is below the level of the adjoining ground to the south. Purbeck Stone retaining wall to boundary, with iron railings and gates. RCHM Monument 1.
Listing NGR: SZ0272378776
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108161
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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