CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST CUTHBERGA AND ALL SAINTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1323503
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST CUTHBERGA AND ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST CUTHBERGA AND ALL SAINTS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1323503
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST CUTHBERGA AND ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST CUTHBERGA AND ALL SAINTS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST CUTHBERGA AND ALL SAINTS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Witchampton
National Grid Reference:: ST 98855 06440

Details

WITCHAMPTON ST 9806 WITCHAMPTON VILLAGE

13/129 Church of St Mary, St Cuthberga and All 18.3.55 Saints

GV II*

Anglican Parish Church. Tower C15, the rest rebuilt 1832-40. Architect unknown. Vestry added 1898. Tower walls of ironstone and greensand banding, rest of church of ashlar and flint banding, with ashlar dressings. Tiled roofs, with coped gables. Nave, chancel with vestry on south, north and south transepts, west tower. Tower, of 2 stages, has battlemented parapet with string course and carved gargoyles. Deep moulded plinth, and string course between stages. Diagonal buttresses. Rectangular stair turret on north face. 2-light Perpendicular style windows to belfry. On west face, below belfry, a 3-light Perpendicular window with hoodmould and carved head finials. West door C19, but flanked by re-set datestones, 1632. South wall of nave, west part, has central buttress and 2 square _ headed 2-light windows. South transept and vestry with twin gables, diagonal and central buttresses. Datestone on transept 1832. 3-light window with geometrical tracery. Vestry has a square-headed 3-light window. Pointed arched doorway in east vestry wall. Main east window of 4-lights, in Perpendicular style. North wall of chancel has central buttress and 2 square-headed 3-light windows. North transept, gabled, has 3-light Perpendicular style window and diagonal buttresses. North wall of nave has 2 square-headed 2-light windows and central buttress. Internally, walls plastered. Nave, chancel and transepts have pointed waggon roofs with plastered panels, moulded ribs and carved bosses. Double sedilia in chancel. Chancel arch of 2 orders with inner order carried on carved corbels. Transept arches have octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Tower arch of 2 orders, the inner order carried on grotesque head corbels. Simple octagonal medieval font on C19 base. C18 octagonal panelled oak pulpit. Good monument, 1636 in north transept, to John Cole, with pilasters carrying entablature, and coat of arms. In south transept, wall monument dated 1542 and brass dated 1547. Several late C18 and C19 wall tablets. (R.C.H.M. Monument 1. Dorset Vol V).

Listing NGR: ST9885506440

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Legacy System number:: 107588
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1975)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.