PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, COLEHILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1171322
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1959
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, COLEHILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1171322
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1959
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, COLEHILL ROAD

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 VIRGIN, COLEHILL ROAD

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lytchett Matravers
National Grid Reference:: SY 93591 96169

Details

SY 99 NW LYTCHETT MATRAVERS COLEHILL ROAD

3/103 Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin 20/11/59 I

Parish Church. Tower C13, chancel C14, remainder rebuilt c 1500. Restored and vestry added c 1875. Ironstone rubble walls. Nave and aisle roofs tiled, chancel, vestry and porch roofs slated, all with coped gables. Nave, north aisle of 4 bays, chancel with vestry on north, south porch, west tower. Tower, of 2 stages, has partly battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles. Clasping buttresses to lower stage. Small lancet windows to belfry. Lower stage has small rectangular window in north wall, and, in west wall, a trefoil-headed lancet and shallow central buttress. South wall of nave has 3 3-light windows with round-headed lights, and solid panelled tracery. Oval recess below the western window. Porch has shallow 4-centred arch with a projecting stone cross over. South wall of chancel has a 2-light C14 window and a re-set 2-light C13 window with deep cut mouldings internally. Angle buttresses to chancel. East window, c 1500 - square-headed, of 3 lights with straight-sided heads. North window, also c 1500, of 2 lights. North aisle has 2 windows matching those in south wall of nave, and doorway with 4- centred arched head. Inner door to porch has 4-centred arch and C18 panelled door. Internally, nave has unplastered waggon roof of c 1500. North arcade has composite piers and moulded caps, apparently incorporating re-used material. Brick paving - probably C18 - with some stone graveslabs. At west end of nave a canopied tomb recess with indents for vanished brasses. Fragments of late medieval stained glass in west window of aisle. Tower arch C13, with painted Royal Arms of George IV over. Several C18 hatchments. Chancel arch C13. Narrow opening in south nave wall by chancel arch - possibly doorway to Rood loft. C19 elliptical barrel ceiling to chancel. Piscina, and C15 brass, in south chancel wall. C15 octagonal font with traceried panels. Barrel organ at west end of nave. RCHM Monument 1.

Listing NGR: SY9359196167

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 108381
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.