Parish Church Of St Mary

SY 5195 & 5196 POWERSTOCK POWERSTOCK VILLAGE 11-11-1966 11/211 Parish Church of St Mary

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Parish Church. Cl2 chancel-arch and tower core. C14 north and south arcades, C15 tower buttressing and heightening, chancel rebuilt 1859, north and south aisle walls, C19,couth entrance C15, south porch C19. Rabble and ashlar stone walls. Slate roofs. West tower, 3 stages with a moulded plinth and embattled parapet. West door, c.C15, moulder jambs and pointed arch, paterae and a label with side pinnacles. Rere-arch has 3 chamfered ribs. 3-light west window with curved ogee heads and intersecting tracery. Labels and stops, C19. Bell-chamber, early C15 window in each face. Newel staircase, C15 replacement in south-west corner. South aisle, C19 rebuild. 3 bays, 2-light windows, cusped, with trefoil-In-circle heads. Roll-labels with head-stops, Straight parapet. south Porch, C19 with pointed arch entrance multi-moulded, Nook shafts -with foliage capitals. Label with angel-stops. small trefoil light over, string with head-stops beneath this, Chancel, C19, 3 bays, 2-light windows with Y-tracery and falchions. 3-light east window, with a cusped roundel in head. Diagonal buttresses at corners of the C19 work. Interior: chancel-arch, ornate C12 work. Semi-circular and of 4 orders, inner 1) Bold cable on soffit, 2) chip-carved saltire and roll, 3) Hollow and roll, 4) Chevron on a roll. Responds: Inner 1) Half-column, 2) Square, 3) Chevron ornament all over column, 4) north: all over lozenge pattern, south: tenril design with leaves. Elaborately carved, volute-block and scallop-capitals. Moulded bases. Nave arcade: round columns with moulded capitals and bases, pointed arches of 2 chamfered orders, C14. Nave roof, C19, steep arch-braced principals from carved stone corbels. Font: broken octagonal bowl, moulded shafted stem, c.C13. Monument in Tower: to Thomas Larcombe, 1610, stone with arched panel. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 181(1).

Listing NGR: SY5169596196