CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1324204
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1324204
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: 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:: CHURCH OF ST MARY

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bradford Peverell
National Grid Reference:: SY 65802 93030

Details

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BRADFORD PEVERELL SY 69 SE BRADFORD PEVERELL VILLAGE

7/5 Church of St Mary 26-1-56

GV II

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The Church shall be upgraded to" GRADE II*"

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BRADFORD PEVERELL SY 69 SE BRADFORD PEVERELL VILLAGE

7/5 Church of St Mary 26-1-56 GV II

Parish Church. 1849-51 by Decimus Burton. West Tower and spire nave, chancel, north vestry. Dressed stone walls, Ham stone windows and strings, and gable-copings. Clay tile roofs, West tower, 3-stages with set-back buttresses with set-offs, semi-octagonal newel stair at north-west corner, external door with pointed head and chamfered jambs. Stage 2: chamfered lancet with label and stops on west face. Stage 3: 2-light window with trefoil cusping and falchion over, stopped label. Ham stone corbel-table with trefoil cusping, string with grotesques at corners. Octagonal broach spire with 2 sets of gabled lucarnes and a fleuron finial. Nave, 5 bays, with buttresses between, single lancets with trefoil-cusped heads. Chancel, 2 bays, with set-back buttresses. Windows of two lights, trefoil-cusped with ogee quatrefoil over. Returned labels. East window, 3 stepped lancets, Purbeck marble shafted with foliage capitals. Label over with head-stops. South Porch has gable-coping with cross over, moulded kneelers. Entrance has nook-shaftes, capitals and bases with roll-moulded arch. Keeled roll- label with fleuron stops. Inner doorway has pointed-arch head, nook-shafts with:Imposts. Plank door with strap-hinges, C19. North vestry, under a pentice tile roof. Pointed-arch doorway has plank door with strap hinges. Interior: Chancel-arch, pointed arch with 2 orders of responds with round foliage capitals, wave moulding between. Roof high arch-braced collars, carried on scalloped stone corbels. Pulpit stone, 3-sided with trefoil-cusped panels, nook-shafted, labels over, stopped. Mid C19 font: circular bowl with round stem and battered base, C19. Stained glass, east window given by New College, Oxford in 1850. Centre light shows Christ in a Mandorla held by angels. Lamb over. Some early C13 fragments, mainly C19 imitation. North window, chancel. Coronation of Virgin and Annunciation, C15 and some renewals. (R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p.34 (2). N. Pevsner, Dorset, p.107.)

Listing NGR: SY6580293030

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 105117
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 34
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 107

Legal

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