Church Of St Gabriel

SY 49 SW STANTON ST GABRIEL MORECOMBELAKE

6/112 CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL 5.9.60 - II

Chapel-of-Ease. Built 1841 on a fresh site. Nave and Chancel. Rubble walls with ashlar stone quoins. Slate roof with stone gable copings. Sanctus bell cote at west gable end, with stone coping and cross over. West end porch with trefoil panel with "God is Love" carved thereon. 2-centred arch entrance with straight chamfer. North vestry with lower pitched roof and pointed door in the west wall. Whole structure is of one storey with paired stone mullion windows with 4-centred heads. These are trefoil-cusped in the chancel with labels over.

Interior: chancel-arch with straight chamfers and sunk quadrant mouldings dying into the responds. Chancel roof with wooden scissor-bracing. East window with ogee panel tracery. Wooden rood-beam and attached responds salvaged from old St Gabriel's Church. Pulpit: wooden, hexagonal with plain trefoil-cusped panels. Font: C19 stone bowl and stem with one band of inter- lace ornament. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 223 (2). '_.

Listing NGR: SY4051893800