Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1216401
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Date:
- 2001-10-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/05516/01
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1216401
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF 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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pilsdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 41469 99551
Details
SY 49 NW PILSDON PILSDON
11-11-1966
6/188 CHURCH OF ST MARY
GV I
Former parish church, now private chapel. Late C14, with major
restorations in 1830 and c.1875. Nave and chancel. North vestry,
south porch. Rubble-stone walls, with large diagonal buttresses
at east and west ends, and single buttresses on north and south
walls. Slate roof with stone gable-copings, and carved kneelers.
Cl9 stone sanctus bell-cote at west gable, corbelled out and with
four-centred bell-openings to east and west. Crenellated parapet
with good gargoyles to parapet string. Stone octagonal spirelet
with poppy-leaf finial. Single storey. 3 windows and south porch.
Windows are 2-light, trefoil-cusped, with panel tracery over. Labels
with intact C14 head-stops. East window, of 5-lights, with cusped
panelling over. Label with head-stops of King and bishop. South
porch, Cl9 with C14 jambs to inner door. Coursed rubble stone with
a slate roof and stone gable-coping. Apex-cross. Bracket-moulded jambs
and depressed-arch head. Inner doorway, with pointed head and
chamfered jambs. Interior: Aisleless. Pointed chancel-arch with 2
orders of responds with plain capitals and wide hallow chamfer. All
windows have rere-arches. Piscina: in chancel, cinquefoiled head,
crocketed and finialed ogee label, octagonal drain in rounded
projection on short shaft and head corbel, late C14. Medieval head-
corbel grimacing, chancel. Four carved stone heads, set in side-
walls, immediately west of chancel-arch, possibly to carry former
rood-beam.
Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 179(1).
Listing NGR: SY4147199550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401776
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 179
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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