Church Of St Basil

TOLLER FRATRUM SY 59 NE - 2/121 Church of St Basil 26-1-56 GV II*

Parish Church. Mid C19. Nave and chancel in one. Rubble-stone walls and dressed stone quoins. Slate roof with stone gable-copings and moulded kneelers. Stone bellcote on west gable with bell. East gable with stone cross-in-wheel. Single storey. 3 lancets, straight-chamfered. Returned label over each. Diamond-leaded lights. East window: 3 steppe lancets with continuous label over. West door, pointed arch, with moulded stone jambs. Two re-used crowned head-stops set in either side.

Interior: pointed sanctuary arch (plain). Roof: of arch-braced collar construction, carried on stone corbels, clasped purlins, moulded wall-plate fittings: font: stone cylindrical bowl with band of interlace at top, cable moulding below and at base, between them a series of 6 full-length figures, one with cross-shaft, also half-figures and heads, also 3 enriched columns supporting a monster with one head and 2 bodies; C12. Sculpture: re-set on east wall of chancel, stone showing part of scene of St Mary Magdalene wiping the feet of Christ, (her head and Christ's foot and lower drapery visible), c.1130. Pews, with fielded-panel ends, C19. (RCHM Dorset I, p.251 (1))

Listing NGR: SY5786697397