Church of St Mary
Church of St Mary, Church Street, Sturminster Newton
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1324486
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary, Church Street, Sturminster Newton
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1324486
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary, Church Street, Sturminster Newton
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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, Church Street, Sturminster Newton
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sturminster Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78804 13950
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/06/2019
ST 7813
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STURMINSTER NEWTON
CHURCH STREET
Church of St Mary
(Formerly listed under CHURCH LANE)
4.10.60
GV
I
Parish Church. Nave, north and south aisles and west tower c.1400; Clerestorey c.1500, chancel, south chapel, north and south transepts and extensive restoration 1820s. Earliest work for John Selwood, Abbot of Glastonbury, 1820s work for Rev. T.H Lane Fox by William Evans of Wimborne Minster. Walls largely of greensand ashlar with ashlar dressings, gable ended roofs of stone slate and lead.
Plan: nave with north and south aisles and clerestorey, west porch with tower over, north and south transepts, chancel with north vestry and south chapel. All work in 'perpendicular' style. Windows with panel tracery with two-centred heads except for those of the clerestorey which have square heads. West door has a chamfered two-centred head, continuous jambs with broachstops and a moulded label.
Three-stage tower: first stage has diagonal buttresses with an original two-light window with two-centred head over the door. The second stage has a west window uniform with that of the lower stage. The third stage has C15 belfrey windows partially obscured by the nave roof and by C19 clock faces. Above is a low C19 stage with lattice panelled masonry and quatrefoil loops surmounted with an embattled parapet with crocketed finials. There is a C19 porch leading to the south aisle.
Internal features: the nave has a four-bay arcade with two-centred arches which crosses the transept. The chancel has a similar arcade of two bays. The nave roof is noteworthy: it is a wagon type of c.1500 with three tie beams, carved bosses and carved flying angels which are situated at the springing point of the transverse ribs. The chancel and transepts have plainer barrel vaults and the north and south aisles, north vestry and south chapel have flat ribbed ceilings.
Pews, pulpit, screens and font C19. Various monuments of C18 and C19. Stained glass of the C19 and C20 including interesting south east aisle window by Harry Clarke, 1921. Externally, under the east chancel window, is an inscription commemorating the Rev T H Lane Fox.
Listing NGR: ST7880413951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102411
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 269-271
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 406
Morshead, O, The Story of the Parish Church of St Mary Sturminster Newton, ()
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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