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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
