Church of Saint Mary
CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323430
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323430
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT 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 SAINT MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Studland
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 02822 87772
Details
SZ 08 NW STUDLAND BROWNSEA ISLAND
1/61 Church of Saint Mary
- II*
Anglican Parish Church. Built 1854. Architect - Blanchard (Poole Herald). Coursed rubble stone walls, slate roofs with coped gables and parapets - these battlemented on nave and panelled on chancel. Nave, chancel with vestry on north, south porch, west tower with mausoleum on south. Tower of 3 stages, with battlemented parapet and diagonal buttresses. Carved gargoyles to parapet. Moulded string courses to each stage. Octagonal stair turret on north. In west wall, a 3-light window with geometrical tracery in lowest stage. 2-light traceried windows to belfry - trefoiled lancets to centre stage. Mausoleum, south of tower, has flat roof with battlemented parapet and a 4-light rectangular window with ogee-headed lights. South porch has diagonal buttresses and pointed arched doorway. In south wall of nave, west of porch, a trefoiled lancet window. East of porch, two 2-light windows with plate tracery. Wall buttressed between windows. Diagonal buttresses to chancel. South wall has a pair of trefoiled lancets. East window of 4 lights with geometrical tracery. Vestry, north of chancel, has pair of lancet windows. North wall of nave has three 2-light windows with plate tracery. Wall buttressed between windows. Inner doorway to porch has pointed arch with continuous mouldings. Tower base has carved oak panelling and fireplace surround with canopy, flanked by carved figures, C16 - imported. C17 painting over fireplace. Panelled oak ceiling, C16 - from Crosby Hall, London (RCHM). Also, in tower marble figure of angel. Tower screen from Crosby Hall (RCHM). Similar screen to mausoleum. This has marble effigy of Charles Van Raalte c1901. Nave has arch-braced collar beam roof with interlacing wind braces. Oak pews and pulpit C19. Pointed waggon roof to chancel. Chancel walls with carved C16 panelling, some from Crosby Hall (RCHM). Stone and marble altar. Marble floor to sanctuary. 2 C17 carved panels on north wall of nave. Modest shell but important fittings. RCHM Monument 2 (Dorset Vol. II). See also Pevsner Buildings of England, Dorset.
Listing NGR: SZ0282287772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109071
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972)
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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