Parish Church of St John the Baptist
PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SOUTHBROOK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1170978
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SOUTHBROOK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1170978
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SOUTHBROOK
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 JOHN THE BAPTIST, SOUTHBROOK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bere Regis
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 84742 94756
Details
SY 8494 BERE REGIS SOUTHBROOK, WEST SIDE
13/34 Parish Church of St John 20/11/59 the Baptist
I
Parish Church. Pre-Conquest origin, largely rebuilt in C12. Further enlarged in C13, C14, C15, C16. Restored c 1875, G E Street - Architect. Nave of 5 bays, north and south aisles, chancel, west tower, south porch. Tower C16, of 3 stages, of stone and flint chequerwork. Inset angle buttresses, with pinnacles, finishing below parapet. Projecting octagonal stair turret on north- west. Battlemented parapet, with pinnacles. Top stage has 3-light windows with pierced stone infilpanels. Second stage has a 2-light window in west wall flanked by canopied niches. West door has 4-centred arch and carved spandrils. Nave and aisle roofs of lead. South aisle, part rebuilt in C19, has lower walls of stone and flint banding - upper walls of brick and flint. Windows with reticulated tracery. Eastern window, of 5-lights in 3-centred arch - C16. South porch c 1875, of brick and flint banding has stone slate roof with coped gable. Waggon-type roof. 2 fire-hooks fixed over inner door. Chancel - C15, has rough ashlar walls. 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. East window contains some C13 material - reset in C19. Chancel roof stone slated, with coped gables. Angle buttresses to chancel. North aisle C14, rebuilt in C19 - re-using original windows. Walls of stone and flint banding. Square-headed 3-light windows. Doorway with moulded 2-centred arch. Internally, 3 centre bays of north aisle, early C12, have circular piers, plain caps and plain pointed arches of 2 orders. Corresponding bays of south arcade, late C12, have carved caps and chevron moulding to arches. Eastern bays originally led into transepts - now incorporated in aisles. West bays, C13 - an extension of the original church. Tower arch C15, with panelled soffits. Chancel arch C14, of 2 orders. Squints each side of chancel arch. Chancel roof C19 - of 4-centred waggon form. Good late C16 canopied table - tomb in north wall. East end of south aisle - Turberville chapel,con- tains 2 similar monuments and one earlier tomb recess west of these. Late C15 nave roof, of arch-braced tie-beam form with king and queen posts and mock hammer-beams incorporating figures of the apostles. Carved bosses to tie-beams - all members much enriched. Repaired and re-coloured c 1875 and in C20. North aisle has C15 lean-to roof. Nave pews incorporate re-used C16 carved ends. Font C12, with interlaced arcading. A church of great interest - the nave roof outstanding. RCHM Monument 1.
Listing NGR: SY8474094755
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108309
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (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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