Church Of St Mary, St Cuthberga And All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1955. Church.
Church Of St Mary, St Cuthberga And All Saints
- WRENN ID
- waning-marble-stoat
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1955
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary, St Cuthberga and All Saints is an Anglican parish church. The tower dates to the 15th century, while the rest of the church was rebuilt between 1832 and 1840, with a vestry added in 1898. The tower is constructed of ironstone and greensand banding, while the main body of the church is of ashlar and flint banding with ashlar dressings. All roofs are tiled with coped gables.
The church comprises a nave, a chancel with a vestry on the south side, north and south transepts, and a west tower. The tower has a battlemented parapet with a string course and carved gargoyles. It features diagonal buttresses, a rectangular stair turret on the north face, and 2-light Perpendicular style windows to the belfry. A 3-light Perpendicular window with a hoodmould and carved head finials is located on the west face, below the belfry. A 19th-century west door is flanked by reset datestones, one dated 1632. The south wall of the nave has a central buttress and two square-headed 2-light windows. The south transept and vestry have twin gables, with diagonal and central buttresses; a datestone on the transept is dated 1832. The transept has a 3-light window with geometrical tracery. The vestry has a square-headed 3-light window, and a pointed arched doorway in its east wall. The main east window is of 4-lights, in Perpendicular style. The north wall of the chancel has a central buttress and two square-headed 3-light windows. The gabled north transept features a 3-light Perpendicular style window and diagonal buttresses. The north wall of the nave has two square-headed 2-light windows and a central buttress.
Internally, the walls are plastered. The nave, chancel, and transepts have pointed waggon roofs with plastered panels, moulded ribs, and carved bosses. A double sedilia is located in the chancel. The chancel arch is of two orders, with the inner order carried on carved corbels. The transept arches rest on octagonal piers with moulded capitals. The tower arch is of two orders, the inner order carried on grotesque head corbels. A simple octagonal medieval font sits on a 19th-century base. An 18th-century octagonal panelled oak pulpit is also present. A monument dated 1636 to John Cole, with pilasters, an entablature, and a coat of arms, is located in the north transept. The south transept contains a wall monument dated 1542 and a brass dating to 1547. Various late 18th and 19th-century wall tablets are also present.
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