Church Of St Hubert

CORFE MULLEN SY 99 NE BLANDFORD ROAD (South) 10/10 Church of St Hubert 18.3.55 - II* Parish church. C13 nave and chancel, C14 porch and west tower, extensions of 1841, vestry mid C19, and restorations of 1850, 1865, 1930, and 1949. Rubble carstone (ironstone) with limestone dressings, cement rendered on the north side , brickwork in English bond; buttresses, thinner buttresses of the C19. Tile roof, stone slates to the lower courses. Single cell chancel and nave, with a former north porch now a chapel, a large south transept (1841), western tower, and vestry (entered via the original priest's door). Lancets, triple at the east end, two Perpendicular windows to the nave (north side), coupled traceried windows (C19) high in the south transept and chapel. The tower has three stepped stages, diagonal buttresses, and an early C16 window above the west door (the entrance). Inside, the C15 roof has a plaster barrel-vaulted ceiling, with moulded ribs and carved bosses, integrated to a matching roof above the south transept. C15 Purbeck font with panelled octagonal bowl, on a plain stem and moulded base. There is a gallery at the west end, with a panelled front, brought forward diagonally to a short square centre, resting on six thin spiral cast-iron columns; another gallery at the south end of the transept has a flat panelled front, on four thin metal columns. There is a Royal Coat of Arms for George III. RCHM

Listing NGR: SY9767098350