Church Of St Martin

BRYANSTON ST 80 NE BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS

5/29 Church of St Martin 14-7-55 GV II

Parish church, now school chapel. 1895-8 by E P Warren for Lord Portman. Ashlar faced brick. Stone, slate, tiled and lead roofs with end stone copings. Plant west tower, nave, chancel, south chapel and aisle, north chapel and vestry. Decorated and Perpendicular style. Square-set buttresses. 5-stage west tower with octagonal vice turret and embattled parapet. Pointed west doorway. Belfry openings are double pointed with pierced stone lights except to the south face which has a similar single-light opening. String course continued as a label over the openings. Nave and aisle windows are generally of 3 or (-lights under square or pointed heads with Perpendicular tracery. East chancel window of 5-lights.

Internal features; 4-bay south arcade with pointed arches of 2-chamfered orders dying into elongated octagonal piers. Similar 2 bay north arcade. Pointed tower and chancel arches. Chancel and south chapel have segmental pointed barrel roofs, Nave has collar-truss roof. Aisles have lean-to roofs. C20 octagonal marble font. (F. P. Pitfield, Dorset Parish Churches A-D, 1981, p,125-128. Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.121)

Listing NGR: ST8748606969