Parish Church of Saint Mary, Charborough
PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, CHARBOROUGH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1120553
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, CHARBOROUGH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1120553
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Mar-1984
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, CHARBOROUGH
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, CHARBOROUGH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Morden
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 92515 97852
Details
SY 99 NW MORDEN CHARBOROUGH PARK
3/125 Parish Church of Saint Mary, 20/11/59 Charborough
GV II *
Formerly listed as "Chapel of St Mary, Charborough House". Parish Church. Rebuilt 1775. - replacing a medieval church and remodelled 1837. Plastered walls, with stone dressings, slate roof, with battlemented parapet. Small bell turret with spirelet at west end. Simple rectangular plan - no structural chancel. In early Gothic Revival style. Single pinnacles at angles, and over east gable. Classical cornice and pilasters. Side walls have 2-light windows with simple tracery. East and west windows of 3 lights, with Perpendicular style tracery. At west end, an open porch with slender column s supporting depressed 4-centred arches carrying battlemented flat roof. Internally, a pitched timber roof with moulded panelled ceiling with painted Coats of Arms at intersections. Several C18 and early C19 wall monuments including one by Sir Richard Westmacott. A considerable amount of imported C17 carved wood- work - mostly Flemish, installed in 1823, (commemorative tablet on west wall). This includes 2 carved brackets in nave, candelabrum in nave, communion rails, altar table with reredos, stalls on south wall of sanctuary, surmounted by another reredos , reading desk, 2-decker pulpit. Early C19 painted glass in east window. Graded II* for furnishings. RCHM Monument 2.
Listing NGR: SY9251597852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108403
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 12 Dorset,
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