Parish Church Of Sts Peter And Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. Church.
Parish Church Of Sts Peter And Paul
- WRENN ID
- sacred-gallery-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1984
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul, built in 1857 by architect R H Shout, is constructed of squared, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. The roof features plain and scalloped tiles, with gable ends that have stone copings and cross finials. The church has a plan that includes a nave, chancel, and a north porch, with a bell cote situated between the nave and chancel.
The nave windows each contain two pointed, trefoiled lights with labels, while the west nave window has three lights under a two-centred head with a label and 'decorated' tracery featuring two quatrefoils. The chancel windows consist of two rounded, trefoiled lights with returned labels, and the east chancel window has three lights under a two-centred head with a label that has carved stops, along with 'decorated' tracery and a large trefoil. The church is supported by diagonal buttresses at the angles and square set buttresses at the division between the nave and chancel, and it features a coved ashlar cornice.
The porch is gabled and made of open timberwork set on a rubble case. The south chancel door has a moulded two-centred head with continuous jambs, and the label features ballflower stops. Inside, there is a two-centred, moulded chancel arch that springs from short respond shafts with capitals on carved angel corbels. The chancel rerearches are supported by free-standing shafts, and the central mullions of the windows bear carved heads. The north door has a shouldered rere-arch. The chancel has a waggon roof, while the nave features an arch-braced collar roof, both supported on ashlar pieces.
Additional interior features include a stone pulpit from 1920 with fielded panels, a possibly 20th-century octagonal font with quatrefoils bearing floral motifs, stone altar rails, and dividing walls under the chancel arch. There is a 17th-century table tomb bearing a coat of arms set under a four-centred arch in the north chancel wall, a piscina in the chancel, and various 19th and 20th-century monuments.
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