Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1216639
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1216639
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Powerstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 51700 96192
Details
SY 5195 & 5196 POWERSTOCK POWERSTOCK VILLAGE 11-11-1966 11/211 Parish Church of St Mary
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Parish Church. Cl2 chancel-arch and tower core. C14 north and south arcades, C15 tower buttressing and heightening, chancel rebuilt 1859, north and south aisle walls, C19,couth entrance C15, south porch C19. Rabble and ashlar stone walls. Slate roofs. West tower, 3 stages with a moulded plinth and embattled parapet. West door, c.C15, moulder jambs and pointed arch, paterae and a label with side pinnacles. Rere-arch has 3 chamfered ribs. 3-light west window with curved ogee heads and intersecting tracery. Labels and stops, C19. Bell-chamber, early C15 window in each face. Newel staircase, C15 replacement in south-west corner. South aisle, C19 rebuild. 3 bays, 2-light windows, cusped, with trefoil-In-circle heads. Roll-labels with head-stops, Straight parapet. south Porch, C19 with pointed arch entrance multi-moulded, Nook shafts -with foliage capitals. Label with angel-stops. small trefoil light over, string with head-stops beneath this, Chancel, C19, 3 bays, 2-light windows with Y-tracery and falchions. 3-light east window, with a cusped roundel in head. Diagonal buttresses at corners of the C19 work. Interior: chancel-arch, ornate C12 work. Semi-circular and of 4 orders, inner 1) Bold cable on soffit, 2) chip-carved saltire and roll, 3) Hollow and roll, 4) Chevron on a roll. Responds: Inner 1) Half-column, 2) Square, 3) Chevron ornament all over column, 4) north: all over lozenge pattern, south: tenril design with leaves. Elaborately carved, volute-block and scallop-capitals. Moulded bases. Nave arcade: round columns with moulded capitals and bases, pointed arches of 2 chamfered orders, C14. Nave roof, C19, steep arch-braced principals from carved stone corbels. Font: broken octagonal bowl, moulded shafted stem, c.C13. Monument in Tower: to Thomas Larcombe, 1610, stone with arched panel. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 181(1).
Listing NGR: SY5169596196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402131
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 181
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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