Church of St Gabriel is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Church.

Church of St Gabriel

WRENN ID
pale-pediment-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Gabriel, Stanton St. Gabriel
OS grid reference
SY 405 937
Coordinates
50.74074, -2.84435
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Gabriel is a Chapel-of-Ease built in 1841 on a new site. It features a nave and chancel with rubble walls and ashlar stone quoins. The roof is slate with stone gable copings, and there is a sanctus bell cote at the west gable end, topped with a stone coping and cross. The west end has a porch with a trefoil panel carved with "God is Love." The entrance is a 2-centred arch with a straight chamfer. There is a north vestry with a lower pitched roof and a pointed door in the west wall. The entire structure is one storey high, with paired stone mullion windows that have 4-centred heads. The chancel windows are trefoil-cusped and have labels above.

Inside, the chancel arch has straight chamfers and sunk quadrant mouldings that die into the responds. The chancel roof features wooden scissor-bracing, and the east window has ogee panel tracery. A wooden rood-beam and attached responds were salvaged from the old St Gabriel's Church. The pulpit is hexagonal and made of wood, with plain trefoil-cusped panels. The font is a 19th-century stone bowl and stem with one band of interlace ornament.

Local climate

Church of St Gabriel receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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