Parish Church Of St Mary

ST 50 SE FROME ST QUINTIN FROME ST QUINTIN VILLAGE

3/123 Parish Church of 26.1.56 St. Mary

GV I

Parish Church. C13 nave and chancel, with C15 and C17 refenestration. Tower of c 1400 at north-west end of nave. C15 south porch. Church restored in 1881 when the south and west walls were refaced. Local rubble and flint walls, with freestone dressings. Clay-tile roofs with stone slab eaves, and stone gable-copings with C19 crosses at apices. Chancel: 2 bays, two c C13 lancets north wall, Cl7 window in south wall, and lancet. Blocked doorway. Nave has C14 and C15 refen- estration. North tower, two stage, finished with a later embattled parapet. North wall has a restored doorway with segmental-pointed head. The bell-chamber has windows of one trefoiled ogee light with pierced stone filling. South porch retains a C15 outer archway, two-centred and of 2 orders, inner order has responds and embattled capitals and moulded bases. Interior: wagon-roofs to nave and chancel. Chancel- arch has wave-mouldings and sunk quadrant between, two-centred, the outer continuous, the inner dying into the responds. Font: Purbeck marble, octagonal bowl with 2 blind panels in each face, cylindrical stem and base, c 1200. Coffin-lid, chancel, tapering slab of Purbeck marble with incised cross, C13. Wall-monuments. Bakers, 1803 and 1806 white marble oval tablet with blank shield by T King of Bath. To Thomas and Mary Bridge, 1793, 1833, wall monument with shield-of-arms. Miscellanea: reset on porch, medieval corbel carved with two heads.

(RCHM Dorset I, pl17(1))

Listing NGR: ST5989002668