Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229050
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229050
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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 MICHAEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Compton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 56200 94351
Details
WEST COMPTON SY 59 SE WEST COMPTON
5/145 Church of St Michael 3-3-82 GV II
Former Parish Church, now declared redundant. 1858 chancel, 1867 remainder, by John Hicks of Dorchester. Snecked dressed stone walls with ashlar quoins. Slate roofs with stone gable-copings with moulded kneelers, and crosses at apices. Integral gabled porch with stone bellcote over, gabled and with bell in situ. Nave with north aisle. Chancel. North porch. Single storey. Chancel, of 2 bays with single chamfered lancets and lozenge-leaded lights. 3 stepped lancets to east end, plain. North doorway, pointed, has a plank door with strap hinges. Nave, 4 bays, single chamfered lancets on south side. North aisle, with separately pitched roof, has 3 grouped lancets. North porch, immediately west of north aisle has an entrance with pointed segmental head of 2 chamfered orders, the inner dying into the jambs. Lancet-light over. Doorway into church, pointed-arch, chamfered, plank door with original strap hinges.
Interior: arch-braced open roof; wooden screen closes off north aisle (possibly for school room). Contemporary fittings, except font, probably C13 but heavily recut. (RCHM Dorset I, p.99(1). J Brocklebank; Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-1880, p.62).
Listing NGR: SY5620094351
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403809
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952)
Brocklebank, J, Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-1880, (1979), 99
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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