PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1323860
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1323860
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY

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:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Frome St. Quintin
National Grid Reference:: ST 59890 02668

Details

ST 50 SE FROME ST QUINTIN FROME ST QUINTIN VILLAGE

3/123 Parish Church of 26.1.56 St. Mary

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Parish Church. C13 nave and chancel, with C15 and C17 refenestration. Tower of c 1400 at north-west end of nave. C15 south porch. Church restored in 1881 when the south and west walls were refaced. Local rubble and flint walls, with freestone dressings. Clay-tile roofs with stone slab eaves, and stone gable-copings with C19 crosses at apices. Chancel: 2 bays, two c C13 lancets north wall, Cl7 window in south wall, and lancet. Blocked doorway. Nave has C14 and C15 refen- estration. North tower, two stage, finished with a later embattled parapet. North wall has a restored doorway with segmental-pointed head. The bell-chamber has windows of one trefoiled ogee light with pierced stone filling. South porch retains a C15 outer archway, two-centred and of 2 orders, inner order has responds and embattled capitals and moulded bases. Interior: wagon-roofs to nave and chancel. Chancel- arch has wave-mouldings and sunk quadrant between, two-centred, the outer continuous, the inner dying into the responds. Font: Purbeck marble, octagonal bowl with 2 blind panels in each face, cylindrical stem and base, c 1200. Coffin-lid, chancel, tapering slab of Purbeck marble with incised cross, C13. Wall-monuments. Bakers, 1803 and 1806 white marble oval tablet with blank shield by T King of Bath. To Thomas and Mary Bridge, 1793, 1833, wall monument with shield-of-arms. Miscellanea: reset on porch, medieval corbel carved with two heads.

(RCHM Dorset I, pl17(1))

Listing NGR: ST5989002668

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Legacy System number:: 105448
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 117

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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.