Parish Church of St Martin
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARTIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1215781
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARTIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1215781
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARTIN
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 MARTIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shipton Gorge
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 49806 91459
Details
SY 49 SE SHIPTON GORGE SHIPTON VILLAGE
2/244 Parish Church of St Martin 5-9-60
GV II*
Parish Church. Early C15 west Tower. Rest of the church entirely rebuilt 1862 by Hicks. West Tower, Coursed rubble-stone walls. Clay tile roof with stone gable -copings. Stone crosses at chancel gable, nave gable and porch gable. Nave, North aisle, Chancel, South porch. West Tower, two stages, plinth mouldings, strings and crenellated parapet. Large half-hexagonal newel stair on the south wall. West doorway has chamfered jambs and a triangular arch in a square head with blank shields and cleavers in the spandrels. Restored 3-light window over has trefoil-cusping and panel tracery. Hollow-chamfered jambs. 2-light bell-openings with quatrefoil heads. Nave, C19, three 2-light windows, cusped in a square head. Chancel: window of same design, East window, 3-light with panel tracery. Label with head stops. Small single light over. Diagonal buttresses at the corners. Interior: Tower-arch with a bracket moulding is modern (RCHM). 4-bay north arcade with quatrefoil piers and 4-centred arches. C19 roof of arch-braced type carried on hammer-beams. High collars. Chancel- arch, pointed with a bracket-moulding and single respond. Foliage- carved capitals. Filleted roll-mould to the soffit. 2-bay chancel with similar roof construction. North aisle roof, with its own arch-braced construction, carried on carved corbels. Fittings: Font, heptagonal bowl with simple cusped panels, 3 to a side, plain cylindrical stem, becoming heptagonal beneath the bowl. Pulpit, C19, stone, by Grassby. Half-octagonal with cusped panel- sides. Running leaf-scroll to cornice. Wall-Tablet, white marble scroll on a slate base. Sacred to the memory of Jacob Browne, died October 24th 1817, aged 70 years. RCHM Dorset I, p 221 (1). J Brocklebank: Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-1880, p 59.
Listing NGR: SY4980691459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401066
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 221
Brocklebank, J, Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-1880, (1979), 59
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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