Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289886
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289886
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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 MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mosterton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 45761 05527
Details
MOSTERTON MOSTERTON VILLAGE
ST 40 NE
2/237 CHURCH OF ST MARY
GV II
Parish Church. 1833 by Edmund Pearce, built on a new site. West Tower,
Nave, north porch, chancel. Ashlar stone walls, corrugated asbestos and
tile roofs. Stone gable-copings. West Tower, 3 stages, with clasping
buttresses for 2 stages. West door with pointed arch. Label with crude
head-stops. 3-light west window, with same label. Single-light bell-
openings with a label over. String cornice and plain parapet. Nave: 4
bays with right-angle buttresses. Single lancets and labels. North door
at centre of north side, moulded surround. 2-leaf pointed door with recess-
panels. Stone porch with stone seats, pitched slate roof and stone gable-
coping. Interior: pointed arch into tower. Plain splays to the lancets.
Lozenge-leading. Short wall-shafts stand on head-stops. Canted ceiling.
Chancel-arch, pointed with a straight chamfer, stopped. Short chancel,
with a 3-light east window (lancets). Fittings: wooden gallery at west end
standing on 4 reeded columns. Stained glass, C20, in east window: Risen
Christ over the agricultural community, ie a combine harvester, tractor
ploughing.
Source: RCHM Dorset I, p170(1).
Listing NGR: ST4576105527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396209
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 170
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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