All Saints Church

ST 82 SW STOUR PROVOST STOUR ROW

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Chapel of Ease, 1867 by J Hicks. Sneckcd rubble with ashlar dressings. Gable-ended, tiled roof with stone copings. Bellcote over slightly projecting west porch. Plan: nave, chancel; west porch; north vestry. North and south nave and chancel are trefoiled lancets. West window: pair of lancets with quatrefoil over. East window of 3-lights under 2 centred head with geometric tracery and a label with carved foliage stops. Vestry has shouldered door. West door has 2 orders of arch, both chamfered, the outer being segmental pointed and the inner 2-centred. Internal features: 2-centred chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders, the outer continuous with the jambs and the inner springing from respond half-shafts; chancel arch respond half-shafts have carved capitals and corbels with naturalistic foliage etc, probably by either Grassby or Boulton; arch-braced collar beam nave roof with curved braces above the collar, the principals springing from corbels below wall-plate level; arch-braced cusped collar chancel roof with principals springing from corbels; octagonal font with quatrefoils on octagonal pier; octagonal wooden pulpit on stone corbel; all fittings, seating etc. C19. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England; Dorset, 1972, p 402. Brocklebank, J Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-188O, Dovecote Press, 1979, p 60/1.

Listing NGR: ST8226921155