Parish Church of Saint Edward
PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT EDWARD, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1278555
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Edward
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT EDWARD, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1278555
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Edward
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT EDWARD, THE SQUARE
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT EDWARD, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corfe Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 96056 82050
Details
CORFE CASTLE THE SQUARE (South side )
SY 96 82
7/125
Parish Church of Saint Edward
20.11.59
GV
II*
Anglican Parish Church. Tower C15, rest rebuilt 1860, architect T H Wyatt,
incorporating some medieval fragments. Rubble stone walls with ashlar dressings,
slate roofs with coped gables. Separate pitched roofs to nave and aisles.
Nave, north and south aisles of 4 bays, with clerestory. Chancel with north and
south aisles of 2 bays, and projecting sanctuary; west tower, south porch. Tower,
of 3 stages, has diagonal buttresses and moulded plinth. Semi-octagonal stair turret
on north. Battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles. Moulded string course below
this, with carved gargoyles. 2-light square-headed belfry windows. Main west window
of 3 lights, with intersecting tracery. West door has straight-sided arch in square
frame with shields in spandrels flanked by canopied niches on carved head corbels.
In south aisle wall, two 2-light windows with plate tracery and a 3-light window
with geometrical tracery. In south chancel aisle wall a shouldered arched doorway,
2 lancets and a 3-light window with geometrical tracery. 2-light square headed
windows in north and south walls of sanctuary. East window with intersecting
tracery and battlemented transome. In north aisle, blocked doorway with 2-light
window above, 2 lancets and 3-light window with geometrical tracery. North porch
has pointed arched doorway with shafts of C12 character. Internally, chancel has
arch-braced collar beam roof. Chancel arcades in C13 style, with clustered Purbeck
marble columns. In north wall, re-set lancet, and C14 doorway below it (these now
internal), and blocked C13 doorway in south wall. Arch-braced scissor roof to nave.
Nave arcades with circular columns and stiff-leaf caps - one of these early C13 -
re-used. Tower arch has shafts with moulded caps, and 4 carved heads. In tower,
2 fragments of carved C15 Purbeck marble. Other medieval fragments loose in church.
In north chancel aisle 2 C15 inscribed wall tablets, and one of 1686. Painted Royal
Arms of Charles II over north door. Good wall monument of 1677 west of this. C15
octagonal font, Purbeck marble, with panelled sides. (RCHM, Monument 1. Dorset.
Vol.II. Buildings of England. Dorset. Newman and Pevsner).
Listing NGR: SY9605682050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109277
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970)
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972)
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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