Church Of St Martin, Incuding Churchyard Boundary Wall

ST 61 SW 2/75 31.7.61

LILLINGTON LOWER LILLINGTON Church of Saint Martin, including churchyard boundary wall.

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Anglican Parish Church. C13 origin, chancel and tower C15, porch C17, south chapel C18. Restored 1848, architect Withers of Sherborne. Rubble stone walls, stone slate roofs with coped gables to chancel and porch. Nave, chancel, north porch, south chapel (used as vestry), west tower. Tower of 3 stages, has square stair turret on north. Battlemented parapet with pinnacles - some missing. String course at base of parapet with angle gargoyles. Diagonal buttresses. String courses at each stage; moulded plinth. Belfry windows of 2 lights, with Perpendicular tracery and pierced stone panels. In centre stage, rectangular window in south wall. West window of 3 lights, with Perpendicular tracery. West door in 4-centred arch in square frame, with hoodmould. In south wall of nave a C13 2-light window with plate tracery. In south wall of vestry a single-light window with trefoiled head. North and south walls of chancel each have a C15 2-light square-headed window with hoodmould and cinquefoiled lights. Buttresses at east end of chancel. Restored C15 2-light east window, with Perpendicular tracery. In north wall of nave, east of porch a C15 3-light window with hoodmould and Perpendicular tracery. Small rectangular window west of porch. Porch, C17, has round-arched doorway. Inner doorway has pointed arch and a C15 oak battened door. Stone consecration crosses cut on several windows. These described as medieval by RCHM, but include one on the C17 north-west nave window and one on the C18 south chapel window. Internal walls plastered. Chancel has a plastered pointed barrel ceiling. Several C18 and early C19 wall tablets. Consecration cross on south wall. Chancel arch segmental pointed, with circular shafts. Nave has a C15 pointed waggon roof with plastered panels, moulded ribs and carved bosses. Good C18 monument on south wall. Tower arch C15, with panelled soffite and continuous mouldings. Font, C15, octagonal, with quatrefoil panelled sides and C17 oak cover. Pews and pulpit C19. Churchyard wall of rubble stone, with flat coping. An attractive small church, interior enhanced by limewashing in medieval manner. (RCHM Monument 1. (Dorset. Vol.1))

Listing NGR: ST6295112710