Church of St Gregory
CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1172545
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gregory
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1172545
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gregory
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, NEW STREET
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:
- CHURCH OF ST GREGORY, NEW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marnhull
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78151 18717
Details
ST 71 NE MARNHULL NEW STREET
4/123 Church of St Gregory 4.10.60 GV I Parish Church; one arcade pier C12; north chapel, north arcade C14; west tower, chancel arch and part south arcade C15; tower restored C18; south aisle and porch 1852; chancel and vestry 1881; organ chamber 1897. Squared, coursed rubble and ashlar walls. Tiled, stone- slated and lead roofs; gable-ended and flat. Plan: nave, chancel, west tower, north and south aisles, north chapel, south organ chamber, north vestry, south porch. Church is largely 'perpendicular' with the chancel being C19'decorated.' West tower: 3 stage with square set buttresses having pinnacles at each stage; weathered strings; various canopied niches; parapet with corner pinnacles; moulded, 4-centred west doorway with label with head-stops; 5-light vertical tracery west window with 2-centred head; octagonal vice-turret; belfrey openings are 2-centred, of 2 lights, mullioned and transomed, with returned labels and vertical tracery, those to the west being paired. North aisle has 2 2-centred, 2-light, vertical tracery windows to north and 3 lancets under a relieving arch west. North chapel has to north and east square-headed windows of 3-lights the tracery of which forms a 4-centred head. Chancel windows have flowing tracery under 2-centred heads. Chancel south door is 2-centred. North aisle has 3-light, C19 vertical tracery windows under 2-centred heads. Gabled porch with moulded 2- centred head and continuous jambs. Inner doorway has 4-centred head in square surround. Internal features: north arcade of 5 bays of 2- centred arches with 2 straight chamfered orders; octagonal north arcade piers except for 2nd from east which has a square central shaft with a ¾, keeled shaft to each face; these shafts have decorated cushion capitals, that to the north having 3 human masks; the south arcade is of 4 bays with 2-centred, moulded arches and capitals with foliage enrichment - east respond springing from angel corbel; north aisle to chapel arch and chancel arch are moulded and 2-centred with C16 carved angel capitals; 2-centred, moulded tower arch; C16 west nave roof of moulded intersecting beams and wall plates, coffers bearing quatrefoils and carving; simplified, probably C19, copy of nave roof to chapel; north aisle has C16 waggon roof with later tie-beams; C19 collar truss roofs to chancel and south aisle; chest tomb to Carent family, c.1470 with blind tracery sides and bearing 3 recumbent effigies; brass dated 1596 to R S A Warrin; various Cl7, C18 and Cl9 monuments; C15 square stone font on panelled stem; some C15 glass fragments; Cl6 and Cl8 wall paintings; ogee, cusped headed piscina in north chapel; other fittings mainly Cl9. RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, pp 148-52, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 270.
Listing NGR: ST7814718716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102753
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 148-152
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 270
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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