Church of St Gabriel
CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287873
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gabriel
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287873
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gabriel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL
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 GABRIEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanton St. Gabriel
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 40518 93800
Details
SY 49 SW STANTON ST GABRIEL MORECOMBELAKE
6/112 CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL
5.9.60
- II
Chapel-of-Ease. Built 1841 on a fresh site. Nave and Chancel. Rubble walls
with ashlar stone quoins. Slate roof with stone gable copings. Sanctus bell
cote at west gable end, with stone coping and cross over. West end porch with
trefoil panel with "God is Love" carved thereon. 2-centred arch entrance with
straight chamfer. North vestry with lower pitched roof and pointed door in
the west wall. Whole structure is of one storey with paired stone mullion
windows with 4-centred heads. These are trefoil-cusped in the chancel with
labels over.
Interior: chancel-arch with straight chamfers and sunk quadrant mouldings
dying into the responds. Chancel roof with wooden scissor-bracing. East
window with ogee panel tracery. Wooden rood-beam and attached responds
salvaged from old St Gabriel's Church. Pulpit: wooden, hexagonal with plain
trefoil-cusped panels. Font: C19 stone bowl and stem with one band of inter-
lace ornament. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 223 (2). '_.
Listing NGR: SY4051893800
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401245
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 223
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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