Church of St Basil
CHURCH OF ST BASIL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1228873
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Basil
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BASIL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1228873
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Basil
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BASIL
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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.
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 BASIL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Toller Fratrum
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 57866 97397
Details
TOLLER FRATRUM SY 59 NE - 2/121 Church of St Basil 26-1-56 GV II*
Parish Church. Mid C19. Nave and chancel in one. Rubble-stone walls and dressed stone quoins. Slate roof with stone gable-copings and moulded kneelers. Stone bellcote on west gable with bell. East gable with stone cross-in-wheel. Single storey. 3 lancets, straight-chamfered. Returned label over each. Diamond-leaded lights. East window: 3 steppe lancets with continuous label over. West door, pointed arch, with moulded stone jambs. Two re-used crowned head-stops set in either side.
Interior: pointed sanctuary arch (plain). Roof: of arch-braced collar construction, carried on stone corbels, clasped purlins, moulded wall-plate fittings: font: stone cylindrical bowl with band of interlace at top, cable moulding below and at base, between them a series of 6 full-length figures, one with cross-shaft, also half-figures and heads, also 3 enriched columns supporting a monster with one head and 2 bodies; C12. Sculpture: re-set on east wall of chancel, stone showing part of scene of St Mary Magdalene wiping the feet of Christ, (her head and Christ's foot and lower drapery visible), c.1130. Pews, with fielded-panel ends, C19. (RCHM Dorset I, p.251 (1))
Listing NGR: SY5786697397
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403590
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 251
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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