Church Of St Mary

MOSTERTON MOSTERTON VILLAGE ST 40 NE 2/237 CHURCH OF ST MARY GV II

Parish Church. 1833 by Edmund Pearce, built on a new site. West Tower, Nave, north porch, chancel. Ashlar stone walls, corrugated asbestos and tile roofs. Stone gable-copings. West Tower, 3 stages, with clasping buttresses for 2 stages. West door with pointed arch. Label with crude head-stops. 3-light west window, with same label. Single-light bell- openings with a label over. String cornice and plain parapet. Nave: 4 bays with right-angle buttresses. Single lancets and labels. North door at centre of north side, moulded surround. 2-leaf pointed door with recess- panels. Stone porch with stone seats, pitched slate roof and stone gable- coping. Interior: pointed arch into tower. Plain splays to the lancets. Lozenge-leading. Short wall-shafts stand on head-stops. Canted ceiling. Chancel-arch, pointed with a straight chamfer, stopped. Short chancel, with a 3-light east window (lancets). Fittings: wooden gallery at west end standing on 4 reeded columns. Stained glass, C20, in east window: Risen Christ over the agricultural community, ie a combine harvester, tractor ploughing. Source: RCHM Dorset I, p170(1).

Listing NGR: ST4576105527