Wootton Fitzpaine Parish Church
WOOTTON FITZPAINE PARISH CHURCH, WOOTTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1228551
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Wootton Fitzpaine Parish Church
- Statutory Address:
- WOOTTON FITZPAINE PARISH CHURCH, WOOTTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1228551
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Wootton Fitzpaine Parish Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOTTON FITZPAINE PARISH CHURCH, WOOTTON LANE
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:
- WOOTTON FITZPAINE PARISH CHURCH, WOOTTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wootton Fitzpaine
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 37144 95641
Details
SY 39 NE WOOTTON FITZPAINE WOOTTON LANE
2/215 Wootton Fitzpaine 5.9.60 Parish Church G.V. II*
Parish Church (dedication unknown). C14 and C15 with heavy Victorian restoration, (1872) by Birch. Central Tower, nave, chancel, north transept and vestry, south chapel, south porch. Rubble-stone walls with stone quoins and dressings. Slate roof with tiled ridge. Exterior: south elevation, south porch with slate gabled roof, with stone coping; pointed arch-entrance with 2 orders of responds, C15. Nave south window with 3 ogee-trefoil lights with quatrefoil reticulations over, under a flat head, all in stone, C19. South chapel of 2 bays with diagonal buttresses, moulded set-offs and embattled parapet. 2 4-light windows with trefoil-headed mullions and panel- tracery over, under a flat head. Hood mould and string-course with gargoyles; C19 rebuild. Chancel with 2-light trefoil-headed window with a quatrefoil over. Hood moulds over with head-stops, all re-used C14 material. Late C12 corbels under the C19 eaves. Central tower, 2 stages with strings and 2-light Victorian bell-openings. Plain parapet with 4 grotesques.
Interior: Scissor-braced nave roof with ashlaring, C19. Crossing, C14, with C14 mouldings and capital to north and south, corbelled off below in C19. Chancel: with pointed wood barrel-vault, ceiled, with embattled wall plate. Very wide arch into south chapel, 4-centred, C15. East window of 3 lights with reticulated tracery over. South chapel with Victorian flat-panelled ceiling and openwork wooden arch at bay-division. Features: font, stone with octagonal bowl, C19; re-used scallop-capital with cable necking C12, and short round stem with moulded base. Pulpit: made up of early C17 material with 2 tiers of round-arch-panels with fluted pilasters, oak. Altar Retable in stone, mosaic and tile, late C19. Wooden choir-stalls, late C19. Stained glass in south chapel, good and complex tabernacle work by G E Cook, late C19. Adoration of Shepherds; nativity; adoration of Kings. East window: Ascension, in memory of Luttrell family, post 1880. "RCHM Dorset I", p 265 (1). J Brocklebank, "Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches': 1856 - 1880", p 67.
Listing NGR: SY3714495641
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403169
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 265
Brocklebank, J, Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-1880, (1979), 67
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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