Parish Church of Unknown Dedication
PARISH CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287173
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Unknown Dedication
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287173
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Unknown Dedication
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION
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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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolland
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 77612 06978
Details
WOOLLAND ST 70 NE 9/201 Parish church of unknown dedication GV II Parish church, c. 1857 by G Gilbert Scott. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roofs, gabled to nave and apsidal to chancel. Stone copings. Plan: west bell turret, nave, south chapel/vestry, apsidal chancel. Generally in late C13 'Second Pointed' style. Octagonal 3-stage bell turret, the second stage having 4 shafted lancets with stone louvres. Alternate faces have buttresses. Turret surmounted by wrought iron cross. Nave windows of 3-lights under segmental heads having labels with head stops. Chapel has narrow window with geometric tracery under 2-centred head having label with head stops together with an east lancet. 2-light west window with quatrefoil. Chancel has lancets with trefoils and 2-light windows under 2-centred heads with quatrefoils. South porch and chapel window gabled. Porch has moulded 2-centred arch springing from round columns. Label with carved stops. Wall has weathered buttresses. Porch contains 2-centred niche containing charity box lit by 2 trefoils. Inner door has 2-centred head with continuously moulded jambs and label with carved foliage stops. Interior: West arch is moulded and springs from half-columns with moulded capitals supported on corbels with carved foliage. Chapel arcade of 2 bays with 2-centred arches springing from massive central column having richly carved foliage capital. Respond corbels also carved. 2-centred moulded chancel arch springs from 3 marble three-quarter columns with capitals having rich foliage carving. Chancel has rere-arches with marble columns and similar vaulting shafts. Shouldered doorway to pulpit. 4-bay nave roof with arched scissor braced principals on corbels and scissor braced common rafters on ashlar pieces. Chancel has ribbed stone vault with carved bosses. Stone pulpit c.1860 with carved quatrefoils, foliage and ballflower decoration. C15 octagonal stone font with quatrefoils on C19 base. Pews and other fittings C19. Monuments: brass plate to Mary Argenton 1616 in chapel, tablet with mourning figures to Cathrine (Feaver) Loffus 1842 by E H Bailey and tablet to John Feaver 1788 in nave. Stone carving by Farmer and Brindley. "RCHM, Dorset, vol III", P 316, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, "The Buildings of England: Dorset" Penguin, 1972, pp 497-8. Brocklebark J, "Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches", Dovecote, 1979, pp 66-7.
Listing NGR: ST7761206978
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403093
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 316
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 497-498
Brocklebank, J, Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-1880, (1979), 66-67
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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