Old Parish Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. A Medieval Church.
Old Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- tangled-passage-lark
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Parish Church, now serving as the Mortuary Chapel of the Mohuns, dates back to around the 15th century. The chancel remains from this period, while the nave was damaged by a gale in 1824 and subsequently demolished in 1827. The chancel was repaired and enclosed by a new west wall during this time. The structure features rubble-stone walls with stone sleeper buttresses at the west end and an east end that is buttressed with set-offs. It has a stone slab roof with stone gable copings and scroll kneelers, and crosses at both gable apices. The east window has a pointed head and a single stone mullion with ovolo moulding, containing leaded lozenge lights from the 17th century. Each side wall has a blocked opening with pointed-segmental heads. The west doorway is notable for its moulded stone jambs and pointed head, incorporating re-used 17th-century materials, with niches to the left and right featuring ogival heads. The entrance is completed with a plank-and-muntin door that is studded.
Inside, the church has an arch-braced collar roof with an open trefoil above the collar, supported by two sets of purlins and a ridge-piece. Noteworthy monuments include a stone wall tablet to Robert Mohun from 1603, featuring fielded-panel pilasters and a broken semi-circular pediment with an urn in the tympanum. Another similar stone wall tablet commemorates Maximilian Mohun from 1612, depicting family and children praying. Additionally, there is a slate tablet on the south wall dedicated to Franciscus Mohun, who died on February 25, 1711-12, at the age of 84, framed by a stone surround with gadrooned cill and conventional foliage in the pilasters, topped with a semi-circular pediment and shield-of-arms. A plaque also honors John Meade Faulkner, the author of "Moonfleet," published in 1898.
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