Parish Church of St Mary Magdelene
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDELENE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216284
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary Magdelene
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDELENE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216284
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary Magdelene
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDELENE
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 MAGDELENE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Poorton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 51886 98109
Details
SY 59 NW NORTH POORTON NORTH POORTON
8/180 Parish Church of St Mary Magdelene
GV II
Parish Church. 1861-2 by Hicks. Nave, Chancel, north Porch, with small Bell-Tower, south-east Vestry. North elevation: rubble- stone walls and chamfered plinth. Ashlar stone dressings. Plain and fish-scale tile roof with stone gable-copings and gableted moulded kneelers. Crosses at each gable-apex. Low buttresses with 2 set-offs. One storey with a steep-pitched roof. 4 windows, single lancets chamfered, and with cusped ogee heads. North porch: entrance has chamfered jambs with nook-shafts and foliage capitals, pointed-arch head with roll and hollow mouldings, Short bell-tower in angle between porch and nave. 3 stage, square broached into octagonal in the 2 upper stages. Singles lancets to each face in the bell-stage with pierced trefoils over, each side gabled, and with grotesque head-stops. Octagonal spirelet, ribbed along each arris. Chancel: 2 windows, same lancets, though with labels and foliage stops. East window of 3 stepped cusped lancets, label and stops. South-east vestry, off chancel, under a pentice tile roof with gable-copings. Coupled lancet window. Interior: Nave-windows have segmental-pointed rere-arches. Roof: High arch-braced collar type, with the braces carried on short hammer-beams; these braced down onto carved stone corbels. Naturalistic foliage and angel- supporters with scrolls. Pointed chancel-arch with naturalistic foliage capitals, short responds corbelled off with angel-supporters. Chancel has scissor-braced arch-bracing carried on foliage-carved corbels. Segmental-pointed doorway to vestry. Pulpit, by Boulton. Stone, half-octagonal, corbelled-out from a squared-off base. 4 carved panels, with diaper foliage ornament. Foliage cornice. Angels in roundels to each panel. Centre panel has ogee niche with cusped head, and carved figure of Christ in the round. Standards at corners with small heads and finials. Font, stone, octagonal bowl and circular base, foiled designs to each face, C19. Small round font bowl on short base, from old church. Stained Glass: East window, Christ Crucified in a mandorla with Saints John and Mary to each side. Grisaille glass with foliage patterns in side windows. The architectural sculpture in the church is of some quality. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 180(1). J. Brocklebank, Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches, p 53 ff.
Listing NGR: SY5188698109
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401629
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 180
Brocklebank, J, Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-1880, (1979), 53
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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