Church of St Laurence
CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229343
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229343
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
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 LAURENCE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wynford Eagle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 58237 95986
Details
WYNFORD EAGLE SY 59 NE -
2/169 Church of St Laurence 26-1-56 GV II
Parish Church. 1842 by G. and H. Osborn. Flint and rubble-stone walls, rendered. Slate roof with stone gable-copings and moulded kneelers. Stone bellcote on west gable with steeply pitched roof and bell in situ. Nave and chancel in one. Polygonal sanctuary. One storey. 3 bays. Nave has right-angle buttresses at corners with 2 pairs of set offs and plinth moulding. One lancet to each bay. Labels with foliage stops. Lozenge-leaded lights. Sanctuary has 3 stepped lancets, label over with foliage stops. Porch at west end, gabled and with diagonal buttresses. Pointed-arch entrance. Label with carved stops. Two-leaf plank and muntin door. Two-light lancet over porch. Tympanum built into west wall, c.llOO, two confronting wyverns with inscriptions MAHALD DE LEGELE and ALVI ME FECI.
Interior: chancel-arch, pointed arch with responds and hollow chamfer between. Roof, C19 queen-post construction with diagonal strutting. Piscina with ogee trefoil head, Cl2 scallop capital re-used as piscina drain. Font, stone, circular bowl, short round stem and square base, C13. Wooden font cover with knop. (RCHM Dorset I, p.269(2)).
Listing NGR: SY5823795986
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404046
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 269
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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