Old Parish Church of St Cuthbert, Oborne
OLD PARISH CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, OBORNE, SHAFTESBURY ROAD (A30)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304077
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Old Parish Church of St Cuthbert, Oborne
- Statutory Address:
- OLD PARISH CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, OBORNE, SHAFTESBURY ROAD (A30)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304077
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Old Parish Church of St Cuthbert, Oborne
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD PARISH CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, OBORNE, SHAFTESBURY ROAD (A30)
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:
- OLD PARISH CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, OBORNE, SHAFTESBURY ROAD (A30)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Castleton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 65348 17833
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/09/2014
ST 61 NE
6/23
CASTLETON,
SHAFTESBURY ROAD (A30),
Old Parish Church of St Cuthbert, Oborne
31.7.61
II*
Remaining Chancel of former parish church. Dated 1533, on one inscription,
over east window. Coursed rubble-stone walls and dressed stone quoins.
Stone slate roof with stone gable-copings. C19 cross at east gable. Gabled
sanctus bell-cote at west gable. Chancel rebuilt in early C16. The east
window is of four 4-centred lights in a square head, with an inscritpion on
the lintel: "Orate pro bono statu do(n)pni Johis. M. abbatis de Schirbom ano.
Domini MCCCCCXXXIII". Lozenge-leaded lights, glazed. Flanking the window
are stone shields bearing (left) a crozier between the initials I. M., and
(right) the arms of the abbey. Over the head of the window is a shield of
the royal Tudor arms with a crown. In the north wall is a window similar to
the east window, but now blocked. On the lintel the inscription: "Orate pro
bono statu dompni Johis. Dunster sacriste de Schirbom qui hoc opus fieri
fecit ano. Domini". Flanking it are shields bearing a device, perhaps, the
initials I.D. and the arms of Horsey. South wall has a window similar to the
east window, but without inscription or shields. The doorway has chamfered
jambs and four-centre head. In the West wall are the wave-moulded responds
of the chancel-arch, upon which rests an early C16 moulded beam with mortices
for the rood-loft and a C20 gable wall above. In the blocking is a reset C15
doorway with chamfered jambs and two-centred head. Reset in the gable are
two C15 window heads, each of 2 trefoiled lights with tracery in a 2-centred
head. The nave is represented by portions of foundations extending 11 metres,
to west of the chancel. Interior: the roof of the chancel is a compartmented
barrel ceiling, plastered and with some C16 moulded ribs and wall-plates.
Fittings: Font, octagonal stone bowl and stem, c.C16. Pulpit: four-sided
with moulded styles and rails, 3 ranges of panels, two lower with lozenge
enrichments, upper with conventional designs with fleur-de-lis, enriched
cornice and scrolled brackets to bookshelf, with date 1639. Communion rails,
with turned balusters and moulded rail with enrichment, C17. Communion table:
with turned legs and enriched top rails, C17. Tiles: in chancel, ornamental
stip-tiles set in C20 panels, with shields of arms. The church is vested in
The Churches Conservation Trust.
(RCHM Dorset I, p.63(3))
Listing NGR: ST6534817833
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105563
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 63
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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