Parish Church of St Edwold
PARISH CHURCH OF ST EDWOLD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1155008
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Edwold
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST EDWOLD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1155008
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Edwold
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST EDWOLD
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 OF ST EDWOLD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stockwood
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59017 06922
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/09/2014
ST 50 NE
2/129
STOCKWOOD
Parish Church of St Edwold
31.7.61
GV I
Parish Church. Rebuilt C15, west porch added in 1636. Rubble walls, with
freestone dressings. Slate roof, with stone slate eaves, and stone gable-
copings with ogival moulded kneelers. C19 cross on east gable. West gable
has an early C17 bell-cote, four Roman Doric columns supporting a round stone
dome with a cornice, ball-terminal and pinnacles over the columns. Nave and
chancel in one cell. East window, of 3 trefoiled lights with tracery in a
2-centred head with a label and returned stops. North wall has a window of
2 trefoiled lights, now completely restored. South wall has 2 windows, east:
early C15, of 2 trefoiled lights in a square head with a C20 rere-arch; west:
C16, of 3 four-centred lights in a square head with a label. West doorway,
straight-chamfered jambs and segmental-pointed head. Plank door with strap
hinges. The C17 porch at West end has a stone slab roof, with stone gable-
copings and moulded kneelers. Entrance has moulded jambs, projecting imposts,
round arch and dropped keystone. Above is a stone panel inscribed W.P. 1636.
Interior: flagstone floors. Font, stone and octagonal, with IHS and cross
motifs, circular stem and moulded base, C19. The church is now in the care
of The Churches Conservation Trust.
(RCHM. Dorset I, p.224(1))
Listing NGR: ST5901806924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105877
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 224
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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