Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1211922
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Date:
- 1999-09-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/00013/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1211922
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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 MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Perrott
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 47205 06664
Details
SOUTH PERROTT SOUTH PERROTT VILLAGE
ST 4706
2/269 CHURCH OF ST MARY
GV I
Parish Church. C13, with C15 crossing-tower, chancel and south chapel of
1907-13. Nave, west porch, north and south transepts, chancel, south
chapel. Rubble-stone and ashlar walls, with stone dressings. Lead roofs.
Nave: single window in each wall: 3-light trefoil-cusped with panel
tracery above, in a 2-centred head, C15 inserted. Diagonal buttresses,
C15. West porch, C13, largely rebuilt in C15, (diagonal buttresses).
Outer arch has a thin double roll-moulding, and a keeled label, returned.
Remains of Holy Water stoup. North and south transepts, C13, with added
diagonal buttresses in C15. Similar windows have cinquefoiled lights.
Central Tower: 3 stages, C13 crossing-arches, upper part C15 with a plain
parapet and gargoyles. Second stage has a square-headed window in each
face, all blocked except on north. Bell-chamber, windows of 2 trefoiled
lights with plain vertical tracery in a square head, with a label. Chancel,
rebuilt 1907-13, with trefoil-cusped heads and panel tracery over. Small
quatrefoils in the head. 2-light north window. South chapel, rebuilt
at same time, on site of a C16 chapel. Interior: crossing has single
respond shafts with plainly moulded bases and capitals. South transept
has a piscina with ogee-trefoil head. Roll-mould over. Chamfered sides
and capitals. Roof of north transept, C15 moulded plates, ridge-beam and
joists. Arched braces from C15 head-corbels. Nave roof is renewed.
Fittings: Porch, west door with heavy strap-hinges, C17. Font: stone,
octagonal bowl with short cylindrical stem and moulded base, C13. Pulpit:
wood, octagonal, on an open-legged base. Carved Signs of the Evangelists,
C20. Monuments: Nave, black and white marble wall tablet, showing form
of a table-tomb, to Susannah, widow of Samuel Kitson, 1832. By Reynolds,
Yeovil (bottom right). South transept: stone wall-tablet, to Thomas
Foster and Ann, died respectively 1778, 1783.
Source: RCHM Dorset I, p176 (1).
Listing NGR: ST4720506666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396446
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 176
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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