Listed Building: ST JOHN'S CHURCH (396211)

SEABOROUGH SEABOROUGH VILLAGE ST 40 NW 11.11.66 1/239 St John's Church GV II Parish Church. Mainly rebuilt 1882 by Crickmay. North chapel, dated 1729. Medieval window material incorporated. Nave and chancel, north chapel, south porch. Dressed stone walls. Slate roof with tile cresting. Stone gable-copings. Stone crosses at east gable end, and head of bell- cote. One storey. 5 windows. South elevation: 3-light stone mullion windows, cusped, with square head over. 2-lighter with a pointed cusped head and quatrefoil in a pointed head over. Dressed stone voussoirs. Buttresses: divide nave from chancel, with 2 set-offs, at corner of chancel similarly. South porch, rubble base and stone above. Pitched gable with slate and stone slate roof. Stone gable-coping. Stone bell-cote on west gable, with 2 cinquefoiled arches, with labels over. One small trefoil- cusped light. Stone gable-coping and cross over. Two C15 windows re-used: in nave north wall, and in the west wall. North chapel, dated 1729, in tablet over window. Ashlar with rusticated stone quoins. Stone gable- coping. 3-light, C18 stone mullion window with round octofoil in head. Square stone label, with stone label-stops. Interior: nave and chancel differentiated by coupled short responds carried on single foliage bases. Roof: wooden barrel-vault, compartmented. Stained glass in north chapel window, early C20. Monuments: (1) Tapering slab with small stone effigy of a Knight in armour, C13. (2) Marble tablet with corbel-cartouche, shell-cornice and bust on plinth, to Adam Martin, 1738-9. Source: RCHM Dorset I, p199(1). Listing NGR: ST4300405949

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