Listed Building: ST MARY'S CHURCH (102324)

ST 7318 STALBRIDGE CHURCH HILL (WEST SIDE) St Mary's Church 6/10 (21/1) 2.10.60 GV II* Parish Church. Nave, arcades and remains of North trancept late fourteenth century, North chapel and chancel arcade early sixteenth century, North aisle 1838, tower 1868, chancel, old vestry and other restoration 1878. Tower by Rev Henry Boucher, 1878 work by T H Wyatt. Walls partially of dressed, squared and coursed rubble, with ashlar dressings and partially of coursed rubble. Nave roof slated, chapel and vestry roofs tiled. Nave with North and South aisles (North aisle incorporating former North trancept); South trancept; South porch with tower over; Chancel with North chapel and former vestry to South. Vestry arcade and entrance to South arcade now blocked and converted to parish room. Generally in perpendicular style with north chapel and former vestry in its sixteenth century variant. South front has castellated tower of four stages over porch with diagonal stepped buttresses, crocketted pinnacles and slightly projecting ashlar stair tower. Porch has moulded ogee arch with label having floriated finial and stops; second stage has panelled tracery window under two-centred arch; third stage has clock; fourth stage has two lancets to bell loft and attached pinnacles to buttresses. Apart from former vestry and North chapel which have mainly square headed cusped and uncusped windows with square labels windows are generally of panel tracery under two-centred arches-with cinqufoiled lights. Remains of earlier window in East facade of North chapel. Internally four-bay fourteenth century nave arcades; three bay sixteenth century chancel arcade and North chapel arch with carved winged figures in capitals and former rood-vice doorway in respond; fourteenth century piscina in South trancept. Wagon roofs to nave, chancel and North trancept; angled wagon roof to South trancept; flat ribbed roof to North chapel and aisle; sloping ribbed roof on corbels to South aisle. Possibly medieval timbers above existing ceiling. Various monuments including late fifteenth century or early sixteenth century table tomb with cadaver effigy. Early thirteenth century front. Pulpit, screen and most fittings nineteenth century. RCHM 'Dorset Vol III', HMSO 1970, p247-249; Newman J and Pevsner, 'Buildings of England: Dorset', Penguin 1972, p395-396; Jones, Irene 'A Short History of Stalbridge and St Mary's Church' n.d. Listing NGR: ST7334618190

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