Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1154649
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1154649
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH STREET
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 MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sturminster Marshall
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 95121 00402
Details
STURMINSTER MARSHALL ST 90 SE CHURCH STREET 4/62 Church of St Mary 18.3.55 The Virgin - II* Parish church. C12, with C13 extensions, C14 and C15 changes, tower rebuilt 1805, and substantial restoration of 1859, by Henry Woodyer. Walls of ironstone rubble, with limestone dressings; plinth, stepped buttresses, hood-moulds. Tile roof. Continuous nave and chancel, with wide north aisle continuing into a chapel (with a small vestry of 1859 at its east end), south porch (mostly 1859), and west tower (the upper part of 1859). All the windows are 'Decorated' or 'Perpendicular', of the restoration date, with a lancet opening into a tall sedilia. The tower is of three stages, with weathered offsets, flat corner buttresses, a crenellated parapet and corner pinnacles. Inside, apart from the Norman arcade on later square columns, the features are all Victorian; there is a tall wood screen, plaster-barrel vaults to nave and aisle, a pulpit with an ogee base, a 'Norman' font, and a series of monuments, floor slabs and brasses (mostly C19) and a C17 helm. The chancel has three stained glass windows by John Hardman & Co. The porch has some earlier parts and opens onto a Tudor south doorway; it accommodates two medieval coffin slabs. RCHM
Listing NGR: ST9512100402
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107687
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970)
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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