Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1324608
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1324608
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL
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 ST PAUL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hammoon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 81784 14576
Details
ST 81 SW HAMMOON HAMMOON VILLAGE
3/85 Church of St Paul
GV I
Parish Church, north nave wall late C12 or early C13. chancel and south nave wall mid C13, partial refenestration and nave roof C15, porch C16 and general restoration and west extension to nave 1885. Rubble walls with tiled roofs, stone copings left. Plan: nave, chancel and south porch. To the western end of the nave is a C19 timber and tiled, 'Arts and Crafts' influenced bellcote. Chancel has original angle buttresses. South chancel wall has a trefoiled lancet to the west and a double trefoiled lancet with the head pierced by a quatrefoil to the east. The east chancel window is a graduated triple lancet under a chamfered, pointed head. North chancel wall has a C13 doorway with chamfered pointed head. South nave wall has a C19 2 light, square-headed Perpendicular window with a returned label to the west. East of the porch is a C19 trefoiled lancet. The north nave wall has a C15 square-headed, 2-light, Perpendicular window to the east and a C15 cinquefoiled lancet to the west. Centrally there is a blocked, pointed, chamfered doorway besdie which is a C16 buttress. The C16 south porch is tiled with a chamfered, round-headed arch. South nave doorway has chamfered, segmental-pointed head.
Interior: C19, moulded chancel arch with respond corbels. C15 pitched timber, tie beam nave roof. Moulded tie-beams, principals, purlins and rafters. Purlins, principals and rafters intersect to form 32 compartments to each slope of the roof. West end is an 1885 addition. Principal intersections carry wooden foliate bosses. Wall heads have brattished timber cornices. Chancel has C19 wagon roof. C17 communion rails. C15 reset reredoes with seven pointed niches containing Crucifixion flanked by figures of saints. Pulpit of carved C17 panelling re-worked. East window has shafted rere-arch. Chancel stalls incorporate C16 carved panels. Plank door with box lock hung on strap hinges with fleur-de-lis terminals. C13 tiles reset in west wall. Various reset medieval carved corbels. C14 octagonal font brought to square base by rounded stops. C20 glass. (RCHM, Dorset, Vol. III, P. 99/100, No. 1, Newman, J and Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Dorset. 1972, p. 221).
Listing NGR: ST8178314580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103173
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 99-100
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 221
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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