Church of St Mary
Church of St Mary, Compton Dando
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1320443
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary, Compton Dando
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- Date:
- 1999-08-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/01443/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1320443
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary, Compton Dando
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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, Compton Dando
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Compton Dando
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 64566 64655
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 May 2021 to amend the description, remove superfluous source details and to reformat the text to current standards.
ST 66 SW
6/39
COMPTON DANDO
Church of St Mary
1.2.56
G.V.
II*
Anglican parish church. C14, altered C15 and subsequently; chancel restored 1735 and 1905, porch restored 1793, north aisle rebuilt 1820 and vestry added in 1840. Consists of west tower, nave and south porch, north aisle, chancel and vestry. Coursed rubble with freestone dressings; roofs concealed behind ashlar parapets, embattled to the chancel.
West tower of three stages, ashlar to the lowest stage; with diagonal buttresses, plain embattled parapet with gargoyles and pinnacles; two-light plain windows to second stage and cusped windows with Somerset tracery, that on the east side has a Katherine wheel in the lower part; tall four-light perpendicular style west window, with cusped ogee heads to panels and sexfoil light above; west doorway with four-centred head and carved leaf spandrels; projecting polygonal stairtower to north-east, spirelet. Nave with clerestorey; three-light C19 perpendicular style windows with cinquefoil heads and under square hoodmoulds and relieving arches; two- and single-light cinquefoil headed lights to clerestorey; rainwater head at south-west dated TB/1783. Square south porch with parapet and datestone of 1793; restored ogee and hollow moulded door surround.
Chancel: two-light mullion and transom late perpendicular style windows (all C19 or C20); three-light curvilinear style east window; datestones of 1735 and 1905. North-east buttress of the church incorporates a decorated stone probably from a Roman altar at Bath: two niches, each with a figure, one is said to be Hercules and the other Apollo. In c2000 the stone was replaced with a facsimile, and relocated to the Roman Baths Museum, Bath
Interior: tall tower arch of two wave mouldings. North arcade of two bays with piers of alternating hollows and shafts, the capitals and abaci are treated as a strip; double chamfered arches. Pulpit and font of 1883. Monuments; Brand, died 1731, inscribed plaque in enriched border with cherubs, skulls and vegetation.
Listing NGR: ST6456664655
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32452
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
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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