Church Of St Martin is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Church.
Church Of St Martin
- WRENN ID
- second-vault-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Martin, originally a parish church and now a school chapel, was built between 1895 and 1898 by E P Warren for Lord Portman. It features ashlar faced brick and has roofs made of stone, slate, tiles, and lead, with stone copings at the ends. The structure includes a west tower, nave, chancel, south chapel and aisle, and a north chapel with a vestry, all designed in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. The west tower is five stages high, has an octagonal vice turret, and an embattled parapet. The pointed west doorway leads into the church, and the belfry openings are double pointed with pierced stone lights, except for a single-light opening on the south face. A string course runs above the openings as a label. The nave and aisle windows typically have three or four lights under square or pointed heads, featuring Perpendicular tracery, while the east chancel window has five lights.
Inside, there is a four-bay south arcade with pointed arches of two chamfered orders that die into elongated octagonal piers, and a similar two-bay north arcade. The tower and chancel arches are pointed, with the chancel and south chapel having segmental pointed barrel roofs. The nave has a collar-truss roof, and the aisles have lean-to roofs. A 20th-century octagonal marble font is also present.
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