Ruins of Church of St Andrew
RUINS OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH OPE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1205384
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH OPE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1205384
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH OPE ROAD
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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:
- RUINS OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH OPE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portland
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 69679 71106
Details
PORTLAND
SY6871 CHURCH OPE ROAD, Easton 969-1/4/28 (South side) 16/01/51 Ruins of Church of St. Andrew
II*
Ruins of former Anglican parish church. C12 lower part part of chancel walls with N respond of chancel arch and S footings of nave; reconstructed with a narrower nave in C14; abandoned mid C18. Rubble with ashlar dressings. Remnants only of walls and the tower base exist; of the tower the N side has chamfered pointed arch and walling to c 3m high, as also W. Some parts of dressed openings to E and S, with 5 plain steps. Nave floor lower than tower. W wall stands to c 4m and c 3m to N. Former S aisle indicated by remains of 3 piers with water-holding bases, and remains of detached shaft with arch from chancel, down 2 steps. The ruins are much overgrown (May 1991); they were also disturbed by a bomb during World War II. Site excavated by J. Merrick Head in 1898. (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London: 1970-: 249).
Listing NGR: SY6967971106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 381920
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 249
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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