Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HARLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1304213
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HARLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1304213
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, HARLEY LANE
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 ALL SAINTS, HARLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gussage All Saints
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 99845 10827
Details
GUSSAGE ALL SAINTS ST 91 SE HARLEY LANE
5/36 Church of All Saints 18.3.55
GV 1
Parish church, C14 with upper stage of tower C15. North vestry and general restoration of 1864, by Ewan Christian. Flint and rubble walls with ashlar dressings; tower partly in ashlar and partly in banded flint and ashlar. Tiled roofs with gable stone copings. Shallow 2-stage buttresses. Plan: nave, chancel, south tower above porch and north vestry. 2-light pointed windows with curvilinear tracery. Similar 3-light east chancel window and west nave window. 3 stage south tower with embattled parapet and square-set buttresses to the first stage. 2-light belfry windows with Perpendicular tracery and stopped labels. Polygonal vice with original door to west. Pointed south arch to porch of 2 chamfered orders.
Internal features: C19 chancel arch (said to be by Hicks) of 3 chamfered orders the innermost springing from a respond shaft with C19 carved capitals; vestry arch of 3 chamfered orders; cusped rere-arches to windows; C19, 4-bay arch braced collar roof to nave springing from wall shafts with C19 carved capitals; C19 waggon roof to chancel; C14 recess with crocketted ogee head and other enrichments; piscinae in nave and chancel; continuous C19 scroll- moulded string course to nave; 2 floor brasses with black letter inscriptions, one dated 1574 and the other 1508; C14 font with octagonal bowl on cylindrical stem; C18 organ by Walker; other fittings largely C19. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p.18-19, no. 1., Newman J and Pevsner N., The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.218.)
Listing NGR: ST9984010829
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107373
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 18-19
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 218
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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