Parish Church of St Eustace

PARISH CHURCH OF ST EUSTACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1287985
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1960
List Entry Name:
Parish Church of St Eustace
Statutory Address:
PARISH CHURCH OF ST EUSTACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1287985
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1960
List Entry Name:
Parish Church of St Eustace
Statutory Address 1:
PARISH CHURCH OF ST EUSTACE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
PARISH CHURCH OF ST EUSTACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ibberton
National Grid Reference:
ST 78934 07562

Details

IBBERTON IBBERTON VILLAGE ST 70 NE 9/46 Parish Church of St Eustace 4.10.60 - II* Parish church, main fabric C15, north aisle C16, some C17 work and major restoration of 1903. Restoration by Ponting. Banded rubble and flint with ashlar quoins and dressings, tower of squared, dressed rubble and ashlar. Tiled roof with stone copings and gable ends. Plan: Nave with south porch, chancel, west tower, north aisle and north chapel. West tower of 2 stages with 3 weathered stage diagonal buttresses to west and angle buttress to south-east. Projecting vice tower to north. West door has 'Tudor' arched head with casement moulding and continuous jambs. Above is a window of 3-cinqufoiled lights under a 2-centred head with casement moulded surrounds. Second stage has 4 2-light windows with panelled tracery under square heads. Embattled parapet. Nave and north aisle have a variety of 2 and 3-light panelled tracery windows with square heads and stopped returned labels. The north-west aisle window is of the C17 and that which adjoins it has ogee-headed lights. The east chancel window is of 3 cinqufoiled lights under the transom with a pointed head and inter- secting tracery of 1903 above. Internal features: 2 bay north aisle arcade with small C20 arch to right. 2 bay chancel arcade with 2-centred moulded arches. Round shafts clustered around square pier with plain round capitals. 1903 2-centred chancel arch. Tower arch is 2 centred with flat jambs. Roofs: nave has an arch-braced collar beam roof with 'perpendicular' tracery. Chancel has arch braced collar beam roof with cusped windbracing. Aisle has plastered barrel roof and north chapel has open wagon roof. C15 piscina in chancel. Octagonal stone C15 font with stem and base. C17 panelled oak screen in tower arch. C20 pews. Probably C20 pulpit. Various C18 and C19 wall monuments. C15 encaustic tiles in south porch. "RCHM, Dorset, vol III", p 123/4, no 1. Newman, J and Pevsner, N, "The Buildings of England: Dorset", Penguin, 1972, p 236.

Listing NGR: ST7893407562

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
102547
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 123-124
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 236

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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