Listed Building: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES (103538)

MILTON ABBAS MILTON ABBAS (South-east side) Parish Church of Saint James ST 8001 13/121 14-7-55 GV II* Anglican Parish Church. c1786, probably by James Wyatt. South aisle and vestry added, and chancel enlarged c1886, by W J Fletcher. Ashlar stone walls with simple linth. Aisle and vestry of stone and flint banding. Nave and aisle roofs slated, chancel roof tiled, with crested ridge - all with coped gables. Nave, chancel, south vestry, south aisle of 3 bays, west tower. Tower of 3 stages, with battlemented parapet and corner pinnacles. Moulded string courses at each stage. Belfry has 2-light windows with Y-tracery - lower sections louvred. Centre stage has clock in north face and quatrefoil panel in west face. In lowest stage, north face has a 2-light window with Y-tracery. Pointed-arched west door in square frame, with Coats of Arms in spandrils. North wall of nave has three 3-light windows with inter secting tracery. North wall of chancel has one 2-light window with Y-tracery and one trefoiled lancet. East window of chancel 3-light, with geometrical tracery. South wall of chancel has one trefoiled lancet. South aisle has three 3-light square-headed windows with trefoiled lights. 4-centred arched doorway to vestry. Interior - walls plastered. Chancel has a C19 arch-braced collar beam roof. Nave has a C19 hammer-beam roof. Simple lean-to roof to aisle. South arcade has moulded arches, and circular columns with capitals left rough for carving. Chancel arch has continuous mouldings - no capitals or imposts. Font, probably C13, octagonal, on pier with detached shafts. Pulpit late C18. Marble charity tablet, 1844, on west wall of nave. East window by Laurence Lee 1969-70. RCHM, Monument 2. (Dorset. Vol.III) Listing NGR: ST8064801785

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