Listed Building: CHURCH OF UNKNOWN DEDICATION (102800)

ST 72 SE TODBER Church of Unknown Dedication 2/170 16.8.60 - II Parish church, C15 origin but almost entirely rebuilt 1879. 1879 work for Elizabeth Marchioness of Westminster. Squared, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Tiled, gable-ended roofs, with stone copings. Plan: nave, chancel, south tower, north vestry. Largely Perpendicular in style. South tower: 2 stage of medieval origin; weathered string course; diagonal buttresses to first stage; saddleback roof; rectangular bell openings; chamfered, 2-centred door. Mainly square headed, Perpendicular tracery windows of 2 and 3 lights, that to north chancel wall of C15 origin. North nave and vestry have some paired lancets. 3-light east window with Perpendicular tracery under a 2-centred head. 2-centred head vestry door. Octagonal ashlar stack to coping between nave and chancel. Interior features: 2-centred chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders and continuous jambs; C15 reset trefoiled piscina; restored C17 panelled pulpit, sounding-board reset as reredos; arch braced, collar-truss nave roof supported on corbels; boarded, barrel-vault chancel roof; turned communion rails; octagonal recut C15 font on moulded base; trefoiled head vestry fireplace; some early glass. RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 114, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 423/4. Listing NGR: ST7997720050

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