Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1153744
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1153744
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 97607 14254
Details
SIXPENNY HANDLEY ST 91 SE GUSSAGE ST ANDREW
5/93 Church of St Andrew 18.3.55 GV 1
Chapel of Ease, C12 nave, C13 chancel with alterations of the C14, C16, C18 and C19. Flint, part rendered, with ashlar dressings. Tiled roof with sprocketted eaves and wooden west bellcote. Plan: structurally undivided nave and chancel. North wall has a C13 chamfered, pointed lancet to the chancel and C12 round-headed lancet to nave. C16 west window of 3 lights under square head. South nave wall has a C19 2 light window west and C18 window of 2 square headed lights east. The south chancel wall has a C13 window of 2 trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil spandrel under a pointed head with moulded label. The south doorway has a pointed head with sunk chamfer and continuous jambs. The east window is of 2 restored C13 lancets. Cl4 north doorway with chamfered pointed head and chamfered jambs. The south wall bears much evidence of rebuilding and contains a blocked C12 doorway.
Internal features: C15 nave roof with 5 queen-strut, tie beam trusses and chamfered wall-plates; C19 waggon roof to chancel; C13 niche and piscina; late C17 pulpit with chip carved panelled sides and steps having turned balusters; C12 font with round bowl on cylindrical stem; C15 glass roundel; most glass C19; C13 or C14 wall-paintings including the Betrayal, the Scourging, the Crucifixion, the Deposition and the Suicide of Judas; C18 floorslabs. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p 65/6, no. 2. Newman, J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p 219).
Listing NGR: ST9760714256
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107429
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 65 66
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 219
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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