PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1156747
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1156747
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wraxall
National Grid Reference:: ST 57570 00828

Details

ST 50 SE WRAXALL L0WER WRAXALL

3/208 Parish Church of 11.11.66 St Mary GV I

Parish Church. C12 nave and chancel, with C13 refenestration, C14 chapel probably built on north side of nave, subsequently demolished. Bellcote and South porch, C19. Stone and flint rubble walls, with freestone dressings. Roofs, of stone slate and slate, with stone gable-copings, and C19 crosses at apices. Chancel, east window of 3 lights, C19. North and south walls each have a single lancet, C13. Nave: south wall has 3 windows, eastern a C13 lancet; middle, C15 of 2 trefoiled lights in a square head;. western, similar though with moulded reveals. Late Cl2 south doorway, restored has plain jambs, moulded imposts and a mou1ded 2-centred head with cherron ornament and a label. Plank-and-muntin door, C20. North wall has a 2-centred arch, of one chamfered order, C14. The former chapel has been replaced by a C19 wall on the outside face of the arch. The Cl4 doorway, now blocked, has chamfered jambs and two-centred head. The C19 bellcote on the west gable end of nave, is stone, octagonal with 2 lancets in each face. Interior: chancel-arch, late C12 is two- centred, of 2 orders, the outer square and the inner with a later hollow-chamfer cut on the edge. The responds have each one half- round and one round attached left with scalloped capitals and moulded bases. North of the arch is a squint with a 2-centred head. Font: stone octagonal bowl with chamfered under edge, medieval. Stem and base, C19. Wall-monument, chancel, to William Lawrence, Judge of Scotland, 1681-2, alabaster and marble tablet with srolls, cherub-heads and cartouche-of-arms.

(RCHM Dorset I, p268(l))

Listing NGR: ST5757000826

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Legacy System number:: 105534
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 268

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.