Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1228490
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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- Date:
- 2000-09-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/02366/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1228490
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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 ANDREW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wootton Fitzpaine
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 33654 96340
Details
SY 39 NW WOOTTON FITZPAINE MONKTON WYLD
1/209 CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
5.9.60
- II*
Church. 1848, in Decorated Gothic style by R C Carpenter. Sacristy added
1886. The whole on a fresh site. Nave, north and south aisles, crossing
tower and spire, north and south transepts, chancel. Flint rubble walls
with Caen stone dressings and copings. Slate roof. Stone broach spire.
Internal core of walls, brick. South elevation: pointed windows of 2 lights
with Y-tracery heads trefoil-ogeed and quatrefoil over . Hood moulds with
good head stops. Diagonal buttresses. South doorway with 2-centred head and
stilted segmental-pointed rere-arch. Nook shafts, moulded with plain round
capitals. South porch, Victorian, of 2 bays with benches. Wooden with ogee-
headed lights above the dado. Central Tower, of 3 stages with north east
spiral stair of octagonal form. Bottom 2 stages: windows with small trefoil
heads. Bell-stage: 2 light windows with reticulated head. 2 orders of
responds with keeled mouldings. Label and head-stops. Broach spire: octagonal
with small 2 light window above, the ball-flower cornice. Chancel of 2 bays
with 2 windows (curvilinear tracery). Sacristy to north east: pitched roof
and chimney. Heavy quatrefoil plate and 4 roundels. 2-centred door with
label. Interior: chancel. East window of 3-light cusped Geometric design
with nook-shafts carrying rere-arch, hood-mould and head-stops. 2 bay chancel,
with sanctuary window responds, carried to ground level. Pointed barrel-vault
ceiling in 30 compartments, painted with sprays of stars. Crossing with
pointed-arches taller to east and west and half-octagonal responds. Flat
wooden roof divided into 9 compartments, carried on stone corbels. Small
north and south transepts, under pentice roofs. Victorian fittings: rood
screen, painted wood with ogee-headed central arch and 4 side-arches. Open-
work brass gates, jewelled. Wood sculpture over rood with Christ crucified,
SS Mary and John and 4 attendant angels. Pulpit: C19, hexagonal, panelled
oak with carved figures. Stone and marbled trumpet-ribbed base terminating
in paterae. Brass desk and 2 candlesticks. Font: C19, Octagonal stone
bowl with cinquefoil panels. Lower hollow with ball flower motif. Octagonal
stone stem with spurs. Brass eagle lectern. Stained glass: 5 excellent
windows by Powell's, c 1875. New Testament windows. North and south aisles:
figures of apostles. Sanctuary furniture of large and small brass candle-
sticks. One altar crucifix. 2 brass vases. 2 service books. Sacristy:
some C17 enriched framing turned front legs and modern arms. "RCHM Dorset I",
p 266 (2).
Listing NGR: SY3365496340
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403087
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 266
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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