Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118809
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118809
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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 JOHN THE BAPTIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Piddletrenthide
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 71775 02271
Details
ST 70 SW PIDDLETRENTHIDE PLUSH 9/243 26-1-56 Church of St John the Baptist - II
Chapel. 1848, by Benjamin Ferrey. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings. Gable-ended,tiled roof with stone copings. bearing cross finials. Embattled parapet to nave. Plinth. Strings to parapet, plinth and below windows. Plan: nave, chancel and south vestry. Gabled west bellcote with 2 cinqfoiled openings. Nave windows-are of 2 cinqufoiled lights under 2-centred heads. Norh and south chancel windows are lancets. East window is of 3 cinqufoiled lights with 'perpendicular' tracery. All major windows have labels with carved head stops. Vestry has square headed window of 2 trefoiled lights and 4-centred head door. West door has moulded, 2-centred head with continuous jambs. Buttresses at angles and between nave windows. Interior features: 2-centred moulded chancel arch, inner order running into respond shafts with moulded capitals and bases and outer orders continuous with jambs; 2-centred, moulded bellcote arch with respond shafts bearing moulded bases and capitals; Hammer beam roofs with moulded purlins and wall plates, the nave having wind-braced purlins; late Cl2 monolithic, cylindrical stone font with flutings on cylindrical stem; other fittings C19. RCHM, Dorset, vol Iii, p 2l5-2l6. No 2.
Listing NGR: ST7177502271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104974
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset III Central, (1970), 215-216
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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