CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153940
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, DAGGONS ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, DAGGONS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alderholt
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 10476 12606
Details
ALDERHOLT
SU 11 SW DAGGONS ROAD
3/4 Church of St James
18.3.55
II
Parish Church, 1849 with chancel of 1922. Heathstone rubble with rubble
dressings, ashlar dressings to chancel. Slated and tiled roofs with end stone
copings except to west end and porch. These have crow stepped gables. Plan:
nave; chancel; north vestry; west porch. 3 light mullioned and transomed west
window with triangular head. Nave windows of a single light with chamfered
triangular heads and chamfered surrounds separated by buttresses of 2
weathered stages. Chancel and vestry have trefoiled single light windows and
offset buttresses. East window of 3 graduated lancets. Pointed west bellcote
with wooden shingles. Porch has plain pointed arch. West doorway has
chamfered, square head and continuous jambs. Double, 3-leaf, studded plank
door.
Interior features: pointed, moulded chancel arch with semi-octagonal responds
with moulded caps and bases; C19 panelled entrance lobby/ringing chamber;
chancel has 2 bay arch-braced collar roof; nave has 4-bay braced king-post
roof with tie beams and a single tier of purlins; C19 octagonal stone font
with quatrefoil panels; C19/C20 pews; open gridwork timber pulpit from St
Osmund, Parkstone, Poole.
A very simple and unusual church. (R.C.H.M. Dorset, Vol V, pl, no. 1 Newman,
J and Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England Dorset, p.74).
Listing NGR: SU1047612606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107462
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 1
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 74
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
