Listed Building: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY (400690)

SY 55 NW PUNCKNOWLE CHURCH STREET South Side 6/216 Parish Church of St Mary 5-9-60 GV I Parish Church. Cl2 core (chancel-arch and west tower rebuilt Cl7), C17 south chapel, 1891 north aisle added. Rubble-stone walls and stone dressings. Store slate and tile roofs. West Tower: 3 stages, with a semi-circular newel-stair to the ringing chamber. Topped off with a stone slab roof. Diagonal anti right-angle buttresses with set-offs. Pyramidal slate roof. North wall has a late Cl7 doorway with chamfered jambs and two-centred head. West window, with a 2-centred head, late C17. Bell-chamber has windows of C14 and C17 date. Nave: 3 bays. Windows on south side, 2-light trefoil-cusped with square head over with 3 small lights. Small rectangular light east of this. Doorway between: c.C19, with segmental head with dressed stones, studded door with strap-hinges in a wooden frame. South (Bexington) chapel, with a C19 2-light window with quatrefoil head. Returned keeled label over. C19 doorway with 4-centred head in the west wall. Chancel: single-light window, with trefoil-cusped head, label with square stops. 3-light east window, (uncusped) with 4-centre head over. Label with stops over. North aisle: 3 bays, with 3 stepped lancets to each bay. Segmental-pointed rere-arches, with a straight chamfer under a pitched slate roof. Interior: Tower arch raised in C17 anal dated N and R M 1678. Nave has plastered semi-circular barrel vault. North arcade on cylindrical piers with moulded capitals and bases. Pointed arches have straight chamfer and sunk quadrants, C19. Chancel-arch, C12, originally of 2 plain orders,one scallop-capital and one base survive, no responds. Continuous impost block. Pointed arch into the Bexington chapel with a single straight chamfer. Fittings: Font, two font bowls, both C12. Base bowl with man's face and palmette ornament and stylized foliage on other 3 sides. Top bowl with cable ornament (rough) and straps forming lozenges. Cl7 wooden font cover with panelled sides and knop. Wall-painting over chancel-arch, C16, with stencilled Tudor roses, and 3 framed scenes- and central inscription. Wall-monuments: south wall to Sir Robert Napier, late C17, with broken segmental pediments, urn, achievement of arms, inscription and cartouche. North aisle, erected 1691 by Sir Robert Napier. Broken segmental pediment with columnar framing and composite capitals. Inscription on central slate tablet. All supported on volute brackets with skull at centre. RCHM Dorset I, p 189 (1). Listing NGR: SY5350188646

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