Church Of St Mary

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BRADFORD PEVERELL SY 69 SE BRADFORD PEVERELL VILLAGE

7/5 Church of St Mary 26-1-56

GV II

The Church shall be upgraded to" GRADE II*"

BRADFORD PEVERELL SY 69 SE BRADFORD PEVERELL VILLAGE

7/5 Church of St Mary 26-1-56 GV II

Parish Church. 1849-51 by Decimus Burton. West Tower and spire nave, chancel, north vestry. Dressed stone walls, Ham stone windows and strings, and gable-copings. Clay tile roofs, West tower, 3-stages with set-back buttresses with set-offs, semi-octagonal newel stair at north-west corner, external door with pointed head and chamfered jambs. Stage 2: chamfered lancet with label and stops on west face. Stage 3: 2-light window with trefoil cusping and falchion over, stopped label. Ham stone corbel-table with trefoil cusping, string with grotesques at corners. Octagonal broach spire with 2 sets of gabled lucarnes and a fleuron finial. Nave, 5 bays, with buttresses between, single lancets with trefoil-cusped heads. Chancel, 2 bays, with set-back buttresses. Windows of two lights, trefoil-cusped with ogee quatrefoil over. Returned labels. East window, 3 stepped lancets, Purbeck marble shafted with foliage capitals. Label over with head-stops. South Porch has gable-coping with cross over, moulded kneelers. Entrance has nook-shaftes, capitals and bases with roll-moulded arch. Keeled roll- label with fleuron stops. Inner doorway has pointed-arch head, nook-shafts with:Imposts. Plank door with strap-hinges, C19. North vestry, under a pentice tile roof. Pointed-arch doorway has plank door with strap hinges. Interior: Chancel-arch, pointed arch with 2 orders of responds with round foliage capitals, wave moulding between. Roof high arch-braced collars, carried on scalloped stone corbels. Pulpit stone, 3-sided with trefoil-cusped panels, nook-shafted, labels over, stopped. Mid C19 font: circular bowl with round stem and battered base, C19. Stained glass, east window given by New College, Oxford in 1850. Centre light shows Christ in a Mandorla held by angels. Lamb over. Some early C13 fragments, mainly C19 imitation. North window, chancel. Coronation of Virgin and Annunciation, C15 and some renewals. (R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p.34 (2). N. Pevsner, Dorset, p.107.)

Listing NGR: SY6580293030