Parish Church of St Mary
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1287199
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1287199
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Abbott
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 45364 00593
Details
ST 4400 & 4500 STOKE ABBOTT STOKE ABBOTT VILLAGE 11-11-1966 12/270 Parish Church of St Mary
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Parish Church. C12 and C13 core, with C14 porch and chancel-arch. C15 west tower, and former north chapel. 1826 tower restoration. 1876 church restoration, when north arcade and north aisle rebuilt. Coursed and dressed stone walls. Clay tile roofs. West tower: 3 stages with a plain parapet, much of the facing modern. West door- way with chamfered jambs and two-centred head, with a label and stops. West window of 2 trefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a two- centred head. Modern window in south wall. Bell-chamber: restored windows of two trefoiled lights. Nave: south wall has 2 windows, eastern C15, western is modern. South doorway, C15, with chamfered jambs and a two-centred head. Chancel: North wall, 3 windows, first and third are C13 lancets. C12 middle-window, of one round-headed light. South wall windows, C13 coupled lancets, and single lancet, and C15 western window. East window of 3 cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a two-centred head, label and stops. South porch has a re-set outer archway, of two hollow-chamfered orders.
Interior: Nave, north arcade, late C19, to north aisle of that period. Short round piers with plain moulded capitals. Arcade mouldings: ovolo, sunk quadrant, hollow chamfer, stopped. North aisle, has a reset C13 lancet of 2 lights. Font: late C12, tapering cylindrical bowl with top and base mouldings, richly diapered surface with acanthus ornament. Upper part has an enriched arcade, carried on cat's mask corbels. Under arcade, a series of heads, mostly bearded and one restored. Pulpit: early C17, much restored of three panelled sides in 2 tiers, enriched upper and middle rails, Stoup: nave South wall, recess with 2-centred head and bowl c.C15. Monuments: white marble wall-tablet to Aubrey Price, M.A., rector, 1782 with Latin inscription and shield of arm. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 224(1).
Listing NGR: ST4536300593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402805
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 224
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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