Parish Church (St Mary)
PARISH CHURCH (ST MARY)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1213892
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church (St Mary)
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH (ST MARY)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1213892
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church (St Mary)
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH (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:
- PARISH CHURCH (ST MARY)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Catherston Leweston
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 36965 94391
Details
SY 39 SE CATHERSTON LEWESTON
5/8 Parish Church (St Mary)
G.V. II*
Parish Church. 1857-8 by J L Pearson. Commissioned by R L Hildyard, lord of Catherston Manor. Nave and Chancel; north Vestry; entry by West door. Knapped chert walls, the cherts fitting closely to make a surface. Stone for plinths, buttresses, strings, gable copings, cornices, window tracery. Plain tile roof with copings at west gable, nave/chancel divide and east end. Copings have gableted kneelers. Stone sanctus bell-cote over west gable with sunk trefoil and stone cross over. Cross-in-wheel over middle coping. Small cross with trefoil terminals over east coping. West elevation: good west doorway with 3 orders of responds, naturalistic foliage capitals, keeled roll mouldings to pointed arch. Label with naturalistic foliage stops. West window of 4 lights with geometric tracery. North elevation: 4 bays. Mullion windows, with geometric tracery heads. East end has frieze of sunk quatrefoils all round. East window, 3 light with respond-jambs and sexfoil geometrical tracery over. Memorial Tablet to R C Hildyard, d 1857 and R H Hildyard, d 1876.
Interior: nave roof of arch-braced construction with high collars. 2 sets of wind-braces, the lower as ashlaring. Longitudinal ridge-bracing. 5 bays to roof carried on stone corbels with carved angel-musicians. Chancel-roof, similar, of 3 bays. Chancel-arch, single responds, naturalistic foliage capitals, high pointed arch. Chancel East wall: diaper pattern of carved paterae behind altar and on reredos. Integral reredos of 3 trefoil- cusped arches on marbled colonettes. Running foliage string-course over. Credence shelf below north window. Sedilia below south window. Fittings: Font, Beerstone, with octagonal bowl: scenes from Christ's Ministry. Latin inscription round bowl and dated 1858. Pulpit, stone, octagonal with pointed arches in a square panel, carried on marble colonettes. Stained glass, good in Decorated style, 1858, by Clayton & Bell, East window with Christ's Passion in 3 scenes. West window: scenes from the life of the Virgin. Altar-rail with twisted-iron shafts and running foliage spandrels. Choir-stalls, oak, with 13th century style details. Iron work candelabrum to priest's desk. "F P Pitfield, Dorset Parish Churches A - D", p 152.
Listing NGR: SY3696594391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104693
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pitfield, FP, Dorset Parish Churches, (1981), 152
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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