Church Of St Gregory

ST 71 NE MARNHULL NEW STREET

4/123 Church of St Gregory 4.10.60 GV I Parish Church; one arcade pier C12; north chapel, north arcade C14; west tower, chancel arch and part south arcade C15; tower restored C18; south aisle and porch 1852; chancel and vestry 1881; organ chamber 1897. Squared, coursed rubble and ashlar walls. Tiled, stone- slated and lead roofs; gable-ended and flat. Plan: nave, chancel, west tower, north and south aisles, north chapel, south organ chamber, north vestry, south porch. Church is largely 'perpendicular' with the chancel being C19'decorated.' West tower: 3 stage with square set buttresses having pinnacles at each stage; weathered strings; various canopied niches; parapet with corner pinnacles; moulded, 4-centred west doorway with label with head-stops; 5-light vertical tracery west window with 2-centred head; octagonal vice-turret; belfrey openings are 2-centred, of 2 lights, mullioned and transomed, with returned labels and vertical tracery, those to the west being paired. North aisle has 2 2-centred, 2-light, vertical tracery windows to north and 3 lancets under a relieving arch west. North chapel has to north and east square-headed windows of 3-lights the tracery of which forms a 4-centred head. Chancel windows have flowing tracery under 2-centred heads. Chancel south door is 2-centred. North aisle has 3-light, C19 vertical tracery windows under 2-centred heads. Gabled porch with moulded 2- centred head and continuous jambs. Inner doorway has 4-centred head in square surround. Internal features: north arcade of 5 bays of 2- centred arches with 2 straight chamfered orders; octagonal north arcade piers except for 2nd from east which has a square central shaft with a ¾, keeled shaft to each face; these shafts have decorated cushion capitals, that to the north having 3 human masks; the south arcade is of 4 bays with 2-centred, moulded arches and capitals with foliage enrichment - east respond springing from angel corbel; north aisle to chapel arch and chancel arch are moulded and 2-centred with C16 carved angel capitals; 2-centred, moulded tower arch; C16 west nave roof of moulded intersecting beams and wall plates, coffers bearing quatrefoils and carving; simplified, probably C19, copy of nave roof to chapel; north aisle has C16 waggon roof with later tie-beams; C19 collar truss roofs to chancel and south aisle; chest tomb to Carent family, c.1470 with blind tracery sides and bearing 3 recumbent effigies; brass dated 1596 to R S A Warrin; various Cl7, C18 and Cl9 monuments; C15 square stone font on panelled stem; some C15 glass fragments; Cl6 and Cl8 wall paintings; ogee, cusped headed piscina in north chapel; other fittings mainly Cl9. RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, pp 148-52, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 270.

Listing NGR: ST7814718716