Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1305101
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- 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:
- 1305101
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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:
- Tarrant Gunville
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 92519 12670
Details
TARRANT GUNVILLE ST 9212 -
9/35 Church of St Mary 14.7.55 GV II*
Parish church, nave, aisles and south porch of late C14 origin, west tower C15, partially rebuilt C16. Remainder of church and general restoration 1843 to 1845. C19 work by T H Wyatt. Flint with random squared rubble blocks, banded flint and ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with stone copings. Plan: nave, chancel, west tower, north and south aisles, south porch and north vestry. Fenestration:medieval and C19 work generally in the Perpendicular style, of 2 lights with square heads and labels with carved stops. The east chancel window is of 3 lights under a pointed head. The north and south chancel walls have lancets. Weathered buttresses, some original, in various locations. Interlaced round-headed wall arcading reset in north aisle. 3 stage tower with battered plinth and embattled parapet separated by weathered strings, that to parapet bearing gargoyles; C19 octagonal vice turret north; diagonal buttresses to first 2 stages, pilaster strips above; 2-light, pointed belfry windows. Gabled south porch with pointed arch of 2 chamfered orders with pointed cinque- foiled niche above; inscribed sundial to right of door. Nave has clerestorey with 2-light windows.
Internally: the C19 arcades of 5 bays have pointed arches of 2 chamfered orders on circular piers with moulded capitals. C19 pointed chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders on rounded responds with moulded capitals. Pointed tower arch of 2 chamfered orders on polygonal responds with moulded capitals. C19 traceried king post and tie-beam roof to nave. Chancel has C19 scissor-truss. C19 traceried pulpit. C19 octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panels. Some early glass reset. C18 and C19 monuments. C19 stencilled chancel decoration. Other fittings largely C19/20. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.IV, p.88-90, no.1. Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, p.416/7.)
Listing NGR: ST9251912670
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103663
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 88-90
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 416-417
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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