Chideock Parish Church (St Giles)
CHIDEOCK PARISH CHURCH (ST GILES), MAIN STTREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1288169
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Chideock Parish Church (St Giles)
- Statutory Address:
- CHIDEOCK PARISH CHURCH (ST GILES), MAIN STTREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1288169
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Chideock Parish Church (St Giles)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHIDEOCK PARISH CHURCH (ST GILES), MAIN STTREET
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:
- CHIDEOCK PARISH CHURCH (ST GILES), MAIN STTREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chideock
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 42150 92868
Details
SY 4292 CHIDEOCK MAIN STREET NORTH SIDE
9/49 Chideock Parish Church 5.9.60 (St Giles)
G.V. 1
Church. C14, C15, major 1880 restoration by Crickmay. West Tower, Nave, South aisle, north transept, Chancel with a south chapel, south porch. Coursed Lias stone masonry with ashlar dressings, plain tile roof with cresting, stone gable copings to chancel and east end with crosses over. West Tower: rectangular plan, 3 stages with south east newel stair rising above parapet. Plinth with set-back buttresses and weatherings. 2 plain strings and a parapet string. 2-light bell openings with 'Somerset tracery'. West door with pointed head and moulded jambs. 3-light Perp window with panel tracery over. South elevation: 2 windows - porch - 2 windows. 3- light mullions, trefoil-cusped in a square head. Small carved gargoyles at the main divisions. Diagonal buttresses with set-offs. Crenellated parapet. South porch entrance with 4-centred head, continuous moulded jambs. Flush foliage carving in the spandrels, no label. Signs of blocking of small window over entrance. Crenellations with gargoyles. Chancel rebuilt entirely 1880. 2 light mullion window with trefoil-ogee heads. Interior: nave with 4-bay south arcade, later C15. Conventional shafts with plain moulded capitals and 2-centred arches over. No clerestory. Roof rebuilt 1880. High collars with king-posts and curved struts over. Minimal arch- braces bolted through to principals. All carried on simple stone corbels. South aisle with compartmented ceiling beams, 1880. Arch into Arundell chapel, heavy keeled responds with moulded bases and capitals, Cl9. Arch into north chapel, segmental-pointed dying into the jambs, rebuilt C19. Barrel-vault. North chapel has an intersecting tracery early C14 window in north face. Chancel: of 2 bays, chancel-arch with double-keeled respond arrangement, carried into arch. Pointed wagon roof in 36 ceiled compartments. East window of 5 lights with net-panel tracery over. Side windows: 2-light, ogee-cusped under a square head, big hollow chamfers. Rere-arches. Fittings: Font, c.1500, thick octagonal panelled stem over chamfered plinth, octagonal bowl with 2 quatrefoils-in-circle sunk in each side. Cover: wood, pyramidal, with a solidfinial, C17. Arundell Tomb, South chapel, Purbeck marble, early C17. Large tomb-chest with recumbent effigy of a knight in armour. 3 painted shields replace the original brass. indents. Tomb chest with turned baluster half-shrifts. 4-centred stone frame at rear of tomb. Two C13 paintings of the Church and Street, showing medieval chancel. Pulpit, 1880, hexagonal on a trumpet-stem, with panelled sides. Choir-stalls, wood, 1880. Stone piscina in south aisle, trefoil cusped under a pointed arch, Cl9. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 93 (1).
Listing NGR: SY4215592870
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 93
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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