Listed Building: ALL SAINTS CHURCH (104938)

ST 70 SW PIDDLETRENTHIDE CHURCH LANE 9/207 26-1-56 All Saints Church GV II Parish Church. South door and south chancel arch C12, chancel, south porch and north vestry early C14, west tower dated 1487, north and south aisles and nave, c 1500. General restorations of 1852 and 1880. 1852 work by Hicks, 1880 work by Ewan Christian. Walls of ashlar, banded flint and ashlar and squared rubble. Slate roofs, gable-ended with stone copings to nave and chancel, hipped and part hidden behind parapets to aisles. Plan: west tower, north and south aisles, nave, chancel, south porch and north vestry. Tower: ashlar 3-stage embattled with crocketted finials, parapet string with gargoyles and square set buttresses with offsets surmounted by gargoyles; west door with 2-centred head in square surround with carved leaf enriched spandrels over which is string course bearing black letter inscription with date 1487; 5-light, panel tracery west window; paired belfry windows with panel tracery and pierced stone panels under 2- centred heads with returned labels. South aisle and porch: gabled porch left with moulded 2-centred head and continuous jambs; aisle is embattled with string bearing gargoyles; buttresses with off-sets bearing gargoyles; central 4-light window flanked by 2-light windows with panel tracery under 2-centred heads; east window of 3-lights, panel tracery under 2-centred head. North aisle: embattled; buttresses with set-offs; 4 windows of 3-lights with panel tracery under 2-centred heads; to left is a 6-light, panel tracery window in an alliptical head; blocked 4-centred door. Vestry has a single lancet north and a 2-light square headed window east. Chancel: C19 5-light, panel tracery, east window under a 2-centred head with a stopped label; 2 similar, though original, 3-light south windows flanking a doorway with a chamfered 4-centred head. C12 south doorway with segmental, chevron enriched head and three-quarter shafts. Internal features: 2-centre, moulded chancel arch with C12 south respond having scalloped captial with beakheads, north respond a copy; 4 bay north arcade with moulded, 2-centred arches; 3 bay south arcade with 2-centred heads and capitals having vine enrichment; 2-centred tower arch with blind tracery to soffit; chapel/organ chamber arches are round on octagonal piers, head corbels to responds; Cl9 roofs; 4-centred rood vice door; probably C15 octagonal font on cylindrical stem with octagonal base; C19 pulpit and pews; various C17, C18, C19 and C20 monuments. RCHM, Dorset, vol I, pp 212-215, no 1. Newman, J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, pp 313-4. Listing NGR: ST7020800730

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