Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1213878
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1213878
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burton Bradstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 48864 89492
Details
SY 4889 BURTON BRADSTOCK CHURCH STREET
8/74 Parish Church 5-9-60 St Mary
GV I
Parish Church. C14 nave, C15 crossing, transepts and central tower, C16 chancel, south aisle of 1833, rebuilt by E S Prior in 1897. C20 south-east vestry. Rubble-stone walls with stone dressings. Slate roofs with stone gable-copings. Nave, windows to north, c. early Cl6, of three cinquefoiled ogee lights with tracery in a square head, label and figured stops. Easternmost window, small single light, C16. North porch, C15, entrance with moulded jambs and a two-centred head. Central tower, of 3 stages, with an embattled parapet and south-west stair-turret. Bell-openings, of two transomed lights, with an unpierced quatrefoil over. Label and head stops. North and south transepts, c.14OO, with diagonal buttresses. North window of 3 cinquefoiled lights with panel tracery in a segmental pointed head. Shafted splays. South transept window similar. Chancel, C16, with two 2-light windows in square heads with labels, returned and stops. Priest's door at centre with moulded jambs and pointed head. South wall of chancel, refaced. South aisle of nave, under a pentice slate roof. 3 two-light windows of C16 style. Door of c.1897 at east end. Interior: Nave of 4 bays, remains of Cl5 waggon-roof, particularly at east end. South arcade, 1897 by Prior, piers of compressed section with low four-centred arches. Shallow recess in nave north wall with ornately cusped head (present position of pulpit). Crossing-piers, C15, have panelled reveals and arch-soffits, each with a trefoiled head, in all main directions. Chancel: blocked C16 south window, recess remains. West splay of the eastern window has "two slots perhaps for fixing the lentern veil" (RQIM). Transepts and chancel have waggon-roofed ceilings. Fittings: Font: octagonal bowl with cinquefoiled, or trefoil-headed panels, C14, cylindrical shaft with square moulded base and spur ornaments, late C12. Piscinae: chancel, C13 with round projecting drain and stone sheft. North transept, pillar-piscina with moulded capping and base, Cl5. Small canopy with crocketed ogee-heads. Monuments: North transept: moulded stone tablet with two shields of arms to Major John Ironsyde, 1694, and Katherine his wife, 1705. Stone wall tablet in frame with broken pediment, cherub and emblems of mortality, to Elizabeth, wife of John Best, 1747. RCHM Dorset I, p 57(1). F P Pitfield, Dorsal Parish Churches A-D, pp 138-141.
Listing NGR: SY4886489493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398538
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 57
Pitfield, FP, Dorset Parish Churches, (1981), 138-141
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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