Parish Church of St Andrew
PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1171073
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1171073
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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 ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bloxworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 88056 94715
Details
SY 89 SE BLOXWORTH CHURCH LANE, NORTH SIDE
6/58 Parish Church of St Andrew 20/11/59 GV I Parish Church. C12 origin, altered and enlarged in C14, C17 and late C19. Walls part stone, part flint, part plastered. Slate roofs with coped gables. Nave, with north transept, chancel, with north vestry, south porch, west tower. Tower, C14, has walls of ironstone rubble. 2 stages, angle buttresses. Battlemented parapet with crocketted corner pinnacles. 2-light traceried louvred windows to belfry. In lower stage of west wall a 2-light traceried window with carved heads as hoodmould stops. North wall of nave, C17, is plastered and has 2 2-light square-headed windows. North transept, C17, has plastered walls with ashlar quoins and plinth. In the north wall, an elliptical window with raised stone surround - below this a 2-light square-headed window, also with raised surround. Chancel and vestry of 1870 (Architect G Evans) have flint walls with random ashlar inserts. North wall of chancel has a 2-light traceried window. East window of 3 lights with reticulated tracery, flanked by canopied niches with statues. South wall of chancel has priest's door and 2 2-light traceried windows. South wall of nave - refaced in C17, of ashlar. East of porch a 3-light window with round-headed lights, and a 2-light window with truncated head. West of porch a square-headed 2-light window. Porch, C17, of ashlar, has round-headed doorway with sundial above. Inner door C12 - round-headed - of one order, with moulded imposts. Internally, walls plastered. Nave has a C17 barrel ceiling with plastered panels, moulded ribs and bosses painted with Royal emblems. Similar roof to north transept (the Savage Pew). Remains of late C16 wall painting over tower arch. In transept, C17 painted cartouches on walls. Several C18 wall tablets and a good C17 monument to Sir John Trenchard. Chancel C19 - in "Early English" style. Polished marble shafts and stiff-leaf capitals to chancel arch. Arch-braced collar beam roof. C13 font with circular bowl and stem. Other furnishings C19. RCHM Monument 1.
Listing NGR: SY8805794714
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108331
- 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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