Charmouth Parish Church (St Andrew)
CHARMOUTH PARISH CHURCH (ST ANDREW), THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215162
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Charmouth Parish Church (St Andrew)
- Statutory Address:
- CHARMOUTH PARISH CHURCH (ST ANDREW), THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215162
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Charmouth Parish Church (St Andrew)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARMOUTH PARISH CHURCH (ST ANDREW), THE 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:
- CHARMOUTH PARISH CHURCH (ST ANDREW), THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Charmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 36434 93593
Details
SY 3693 CHARMOUTH THE STREET, SOUTH SIDE
8/34 Charmouth Parish Church (St Andrew)
G.V. II
Parish Church. Entirely rebuilt 1836-8, by Charles Fowler, Gothic Revival style. West Tower, Nave, north and south aisles, north porch, balancing south vestry, chancel slightly projecting. Forest marble plinth, chert rubble walls with "long-and-short style" stone dressings. Window dressings of Beer stone. Boscastle slate roofs; nave has tiled ridge. West Tower: 3 stages with diagonal buttresses, set-offs and stopped with gablets. Strings break over pointed doorheads. Circular moulded stone surround to clock face and on each face of tower; long coupled-lancet bell-openings- with straight-chamfered jambs and 'V'-grooves. 'Classical- style' cornice with modillions and a 'Gothic' embattled parapet over. North elevation: 5 bays, divided by buttresses with set-offs. Tall lancets with returned labels over. Modillion-cornice and plain parapet. North porch with pointed- arch entrance, label over. Stone gable coping, corbelled out. Stone cross at apex. Pitched slate roof is lower behind. 2 leaf door with thin muntins. Chancel projects, c 3 feet only. Diagonal buttresses with gablet heads. East end: triple lancet window with label. Clearstorey with pointed windows to each bay. Interior: nave of 5 bays, continuous into chancel. Tall octagonal columns with moulded capitals and 4-centred arches. Roof of pseudo-hammer-beam design under a ceiling canted upwards. Arch-braces and iron tie-rods between the ends of hammer-beams. Single clearstorey lancets. Gallery across west end of church, carried on 2 iron columns and with a wood- ; panelled front. Aisle roofs, pentice with exposed rafters. Fittings: Pulpit, 1885 on brass plate, in C14 Italianate style. Stone and'marbled', octagonal. Marbled columns carrying trefoil-headed arches with foliage capitals. Font, presented 1884, marbled, octagonal in Perp. style with sunk quatrefoils to panels. Altar retable, stone, in simplified C14 style with crocketed finials. Carved gable stone, c C14, from pre-1503 church. Cross with an abbot (of Forde) standing with back to it, tonsured with chasuble, alb and pastoral staff. Memorial tablets, North wall chancel: to Anthony Ellesdon, Knight, d. 13 November 1737, Classical column surround. South wall chancel: to Edward Bragge, MA d. 1747 and Martha d. 1769, in a rococoesque scrolly cartouche. Urn-tablet, North aisle, neo-Classical, to Julia wife of Robert Spiller d 2nd May 1811. Stained Glass in C13/C14 style, given in 1860s and 1870s. East windows, Christ in Majesty, 1936. Organ, 1846, given by John Bullen. Plain stone font, small bowl with octagonal necking and C20 stem. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 87 (1).
Listing NGR: SY3643493593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104719
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 87
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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