Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1290242
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Date:
- 1999-10-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/00009/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1290242
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- 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:
- Corscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 52229 04865
Details
CORSCOMBE CORSCOMBE VILLAGE
ST 50 SW
11.11.66
5/203 CHURCH OF ST MARY
GV I
Parish Church. C15 West Tower, and North Porch. Core of Nave. Nave
and Chancel rebuilt by J Mountford Allen of Crewkerne, 1875-7. West
Tower, nave, South aisle, chancel, north porch. Rubble-stone walls with
Ham stone ashlar dressings. Plain tile roofs. West Tower: 3 stages
divided by strings. Canted newel-stair on north wall of tower to mid-stage,
stopped off with a hipped stone slate roof. West doorway with a moulded
pointed head, and jambs, C15. Plank door. 2-light stone mullion window
over with a large casement moulding. 2-light bell-openings with a straight
quatrefoil over. Crenellated parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Tower
unbuttressed. Nave north wall with 3 renewed stone mullion windows.
West has label and head stop of C19. Other 2 have labels with C15 head
stops. Chancel has 2 2-light windows with geometrical tracery heads.
Label and head-stops, all C19. East window: of 4 lights with plate
tracery, labels and stops, C19. North porch, C15, pointed arch and moulded
jambs, Low-pitched gable with gargoyles. Nave, north door sculptured
composition externally, C15, standards set diagonally with angel-head
brackets formerly supporting images. Door-head level has crocketed and
finialled canopies with traceried soffits. Above doorway: 3 niches with
half-angels as brackets, side-standards with trefoiled gables. Interior:
2-centred tower-arch with single respond and 2 outer rolls. Nave: rebuilt
in C19, east of the porch. 5-bay south aisle with conventional pier-design
and pointed arches. C19 roof of arch-braced, collar construction. King-posts.
Wall-plate with pierced quatrefoils and embattled. Chancel-arch, C19,
with 3 responds and plain moulded capitals. Heavy Perp-style mouldings.
Ceiled roof of Marsard-style internally, divided into 20 compartments.
South organ chamber, with a wide 2-centred arch, C19. Pointed door in
south chancel wall, label with foliage stops over. Fittings: Font, stone,
octagonal with 2 cusped panels on each side. Plain, octagonal stone base.
C15, stem and base modern. Pulpit, octagonal, of stone and carried on
short marbled colonettes with foliage capitals. Sides have Venetian
Renaissance detailing, including sunk paterae. East window: stained glass
of 1877. Monuments: Wall Tablet, by Chislett of Beaminster, to Joseph
Bishop, 1823, Sarah his wife, 1800, and others. Marble wall-tablet with
flanking pilaster-strips, draped sarcophagus and bay-tree, to Elizabeth
Bowring 1837, by Wilkins.
Source: RCHM Dorset I, pl05(1). F P Pitfield, Dorset Parish Churches, p208.
Listing NGR: ST5223004866
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395573
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 105
Pitfield, FP, Dorset Parish Churches, (1981), 208
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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