Parish Church of St Lawrence
PARISH CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1172612
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1172612
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
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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 LAWRENCE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Folke
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 65970 13270
Details
ST 61 SE FOLKE FOLKE VILLAGE
2/87 31-7-61 Parish Church of St Lawrence
GV I
Church, 1628 and restoration 1875 (RCHM). Tower may incorporate some earlier work. Coursed rubble, with ashlar dressings. Gable ended stone slate roofs to nave and chancel with stone copings bearing cross finials. Aisle roofs hidden behind embattled parapets. Plan: west tower, nave, chancel, north and south aisle with south porch (now vestry). Very late 'perpendicular' in style (ie gothic survival). West tower: 2 stages with embattled parapet separated by moulded strings, the parapet string bearing gargoyles; crocketted corner finials; semi- circular vice turret; diagonal buttresses (possibly later additions); blocked semi-circular arch to north; south door of C19 with 2-centred head; stopped label and continuously moulded jambs; bell chamber has to each face a single-light window under a 2-centred head with no label filled with pierced stone panels. North and south aisle and chancel windows; of charactertic early C17 pattern of 3 square-headed, graduated lights with stopped, returned labels; each light has a 4-centred head and the mullions are hollow-chamfered. East and west windows are of a similar pattern but are of 2-lights both of equal height. The east chancel windows is of a similar pattern but is of 4-lights, the central two being raised. The chancel gable bears a trefoil stone panel and has quarter-round profile kneelers. South porch door has a moulded round head sprining from moulded imposts below which are moulded jambs. Chancel door has moulded, semi circular head with square, stopped label and continuous jambs. The nave door has a moulded 2-centred head, continuous jambs and a stopped label. Internal features: 3 bay nave arcades with moulded 2-centred arches and flat, sunken soffits bearing carved roses, the central arch bearing a pendant; arcades spring from octagonal piers with moulded dentilled capitals, round headed concave panels and moulded bases; round chancel arch with flat soffit and pendant keystone springing from corbels with similar detail to arcades; 2-centred, moulded tower arch; wooden chancel arch screen with scrolls, Ionic pilasters, pinnacles, strapwork and other carving; similar screen to north aisle; barrel vault roofs to chancel and nave with carved bosses, similar flat roofs to aisles; octagonal font, gadrooned with Vitruvian waves on twisted stem with scrolled wooden cover; octagonal pulpit with dentilled cornice and reeded panels; turned communion rails; C17 pews with scalloped bench ends, reeded through styles and interrupted rails; similar dado panelling in chancel; C18, C19 and C20 monuments notably to Thomas Chafe and others c 1720. RCHM, Dorset, vol I, pp 11O-1, no 1, Newman J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset. 1972, p 206.
Listing NGR: ST6597213270
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104810
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1974), 110-111
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 206
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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