Church of St Barnabas

CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1216067
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1960
List Entry Name:
Church of St Barnabas
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1216067
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1960
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:
Church of St Barnabas
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lydlinch
National Grid Reference:
ST 72245 12978

Details

LYDLINCH STOCK GAYLARD ST 71 SW 4/71 Church of St Barnabas (formerly listed as Parish Church at Stock Gaylard) 4.10.60 G.V. II

Former parish church. Entirely rebuilt in 1884 by W.J Fletcher. Original features seem mostly to be C 15 and C 16. Coursed, squared rubble with ashlar dressings. Stone slate, gable ended roof with stone copings and double bell-cot. Plan: Chancel, South porch and North Vestry. A small church in the 'perpendicular' style. Windows mainly of 2-lights under square heads. East window of 2 trefoiled lights with panelled tracery under 2-centred head with a returned label; it appears to follow the original (see engraving in Hutchins, J, vol.III opposite p 686) Vestry has trefoiled windows. South porch has archway with chamfered 2-centred head. Barrel-vault roofs. Stone slab altar, possibly reused table-tomb top on reset table tomb. Octagonal C15 stone font with quatrefoil panels. Some early glass. Recumbent C13 effigy in south wall of nave set in cusped arched niche; figure of knight with legs crossed and feet resting on lion, said to be of Sir Ingelramus de Walys. C18 and C19 wall tablets. "RCHM, Dorset Vol III" p 138, no 3. Newman J and Pevsnez N. " The Buildings of England Dorset" Penguin 1972 p 399. Hutchins J "The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset" thirded 1868. Reprint by E.P. 1973.

Listing NGR: ST7224512978

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
102572
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 138
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 399
Hutchins, J, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, (1868)

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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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