Church Of All Saints

NETHER CERNE SY 69 NE -

4/101 Church of All Saints 26-1-56 GV I

Former Parish Church. Late C13 nave and chancel, undivided, and south chapel. West Tower added late C15. North Porch, C17. Church restored in 1876. Local rubble walls, banded with flints, and with freestone dressings. Tile and stone slate roofs. Chancel has a late C13 east window of 3 graduated lancets with a common rear-arch. North wall has 3 single-light windows, of C13 origin, eastermost enlarged. South wall has a C14 arch, segmental-pointed and of 2 chamfered orders, flanking it are 2 windows. South Chapel has a lancet in east wall, which has shafted responds internally, with water-holding bases, and simple moulded capitals. Large cinquefoiled rear-arch. South window of three trefoiled lights, with geometric tracery in a two-centred head. West Tower, 3 stages, with a restored parapet with C19 half-angels and pinnacles. Stair-turret on north side has a pyramidal capping with a carved finial. West window is of two ogee lights with uncusped tracery in a 4-centred head, with moulded reveals and label. 2nd stage window of one pointed light. Bell-chamber has in each wall a window of 2 four-centred lights. North porch, outer archway, C17, with chamfered jambs and two-centred head.

Interior: roof construction, C19, arch-braced collars with cusped bracing coming down onto stone corbels; wall-plate has ashlaring. Fittings: Font, circular stone bowl, gadrooned, C13, octagonal stone stem with spur feet in the diagonals, C14. Wall Tablet, south chapel, white marble: "to Henry Sheering, gent of Upwey in the County of Dorset died May 24th 1810, aged 90 years. Also Elizabeth his wife, died Feb. 17th 1766". (RCHM Dorset I, p.85 (1))

Listing NGR: SY6699298207