Listed Building: PARISH CHURCH OF ST EUSTACE (102547)

IBBERTON IBBERTON VILLAGE ST 70 NE 9/46 Parish Church of St Eustace 4.10.60 - II* Parish church, main fabric C15, north aisle C16, some C17 work and major restoration of 1903. Restoration by Ponting. Banded rubble and flint with ashlar quoins and dressings, tower of squared, dressed rubble and ashlar. Tiled roof with stone copings and gable ends. Plan: Nave with south porch, chancel, west tower, north aisle and north chapel. West tower of 2 stages with 3 weathered stage diagonal buttresses to west and angle buttress to south-east. Projecting vice tower to north. West door has 'Tudor' arched head with casement moulding and continuous jambs. Above is a window of 3-cinqufoiled lights under a 2-centred head with casement moulded surrounds. Second stage has 4 2-light windows with panelled tracery under square heads. Embattled parapet. Nave and north aisle have a variety of 2 and 3-light panelled tracery windows with square heads and stopped returned labels. The north-west aisle window is of the C17 and that which adjoins it has ogee-headed lights. The east chancel window is of 3 cinqufoiled lights under the transom with a pointed head and inter- secting tracery of 1903 above. Internal features: 2 bay north aisle arcade with small C20 arch to right. 2 bay chancel arcade with 2-centred moulded arches. Round shafts clustered around square pier with plain round capitals. 1903 2-centred chancel arch. Tower arch is 2 centred with flat jambs. Roofs: nave has an arch-braced collar beam roof with 'perpendicular' tracery. Chancel has arch braced collar beam roof with cusped windbracing. Aisle has plastered barrel roof and north chapel has open wagon roof. C15 piscina in chancel. Octagonal stone C15 font with stem and base. C17 panelled oak screen in tower arch. C20 pews. Probably C20 pulpit. Various C18 and C19 wall monuments. C15 encaustic tiles in south porch. "RCHM, Dorset, vol III", p 123/4, no 1. Newman, J and Pevsner, N, "The Buildings of England: Dorset", Penguin, 1972, p 236. Listing NGR: ST7893407562

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