CHURCH OF ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST PETER, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1228957
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1228957
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, SCHOOL LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, SCHOOL LANE

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District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Toller Porcorum
National Grid Reference:: SY 56214 97993

Details

TOLLER PORCORUM SY 59 NE SCHOOL LANE

2/137 Church of St Peter 26-1-56 GV II*

Parish Church. C14 Chancel and nave. C15 West Tower and North Porch, now Vestry. South aisle added in 1891 when chancel also restored. Further restoration in 1894-5. Dressed stone and banded stone and flint walls. Slate and lead roofs. Chancel has a Ham stone parapet above the string. North wall has two early C14 windows, with trefoiled ogee lights. South wall has a 2-light window, trefoil-cusped with a label, all C19 restoration. East window, C19 in Perpendicular style, 4-lights with cinquefoil cusping and panel tracery. Nave, north wall, two windows largely late C19, but incorpor- ating C15 material. Near the west end of the wall are the lines of a blocked window with a 2-centred head. North Porch has a C14 outer archway with chamfered jambs and segmental pointed head, now blocked and with a C20 window. West Tower: early C15, 3 stages, with set-tack buttresses, an embattled parapet and gargoyles, West doorway has moulded jambs, and two-centre arch, with upper plinth moulding carried over as a label. West window of 4 trefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a pointed head. Bell-chamber has in each wall a window of 2 trefoiled ogee lights with a quatrefoil in a pointed head, moulded reveals.

Interior: Chancel-arch incorporates c.late C13 materials. Pointed arch, of 3 chamfered orders. The moulded responds have marble shafting to the inner orders, with defaced stone capitals. North of arch, restored opening to squint. South of arch is one jamb of the upper doorway to the former rood-loft. South nave arcade, 1891, central stone and elliptical arches. South aisle windows: Three 2-light, transomed with panel tracery over. Fittings: Piscina (chancel), with pointed arch head and 2 sunk-chamfered jambs, quirked, moulded label over, round stone bowl with moulded corbelling. Font, lime - stone cylindrical tub with chamfered top, crude volutes to 3 corners and projecting carved Ram's head at 4th corner, Cl2. Upper part (separate), Ham stone, octagonal, S sides have a single fleuron each, remaining 3 sides uncarved. White marble wall tablets (1) to Harriet and Charlotte Meech, 1829, 1832. (2) To Giles Meech, M. A. died 1849. (RCHM Dorset I, p.252 (1))

Listing NGR: SY5621497993

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Legacy System number:: 403694
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 252

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.