Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL (102589)

MAPPOWDER MAPPOWDER: VILLAGE 8/88 Church of St Peter and St Paul 4.10.60 GV I Parish Church. Nave, south aisle, west tower and south porch late C15, chancel and restoration 1868. 1868 work by Slater and Carpenter. Squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Gable ended roofs, that to the nave of stone slates and that to the charnel of tiles and stone slates; stone copings with finials. Plan; chancel, nave, south aisle, west tower and south porch. Both the main body of the church and the chancel are in the 'perpendicular' style. The west tower is of 2 storeys with a moulded plinth; parapet with restored crocketted corner finials; weathered strings; diagonal 3-stage west buttresses; square set south-west buttress; rectangular south east viceturret with loops and parapet string course with corner gargoyles. West doorway with 4-centred moulded head with continuous jambs in square surround with square stopped label. 3-light panel tracery west window under 2-centred head. Upper stage has a bwfrey window on each side of 2-lights with quatrefoil under 2-centred heads the openings being filled with pierced stone panels. Windows of chancel, nave and aisles mainly of 3-lights under 2 centred arches with panel tracery and hood moulds. East window of 5-lights. North facade has parapet with blind brattishing below which is a string course with gargoyles. Continuous moulded plinth below and buttresses between windows. Flying buttress at west end of chancel. South aisle has embattled parapet with string course bearing gargoyles below. Plinths and strings similar to north wall. Diagonal buttresses. Reset C14 2-light window in west wall. South porch with plinths,string courses, parapets and diagonal buttresses. Semi-circular moulded arch with continuous jams. Niche to right. Internally there is a 3 bay nave arcade with 2-centred moulded arches. Piers have three-quarter shafts with moulded capitals separated by hollow chamfers continuous with the arch. The east respond has a carved head with foliage coming from nostrils. Rood vice doorway with chamfered 4-centred head and continuous jambs. Squint between aisle and chancel. Roofs: nave and chancel have wagon roofs supported on corbels. South aisle roof is of intersecting moulded beam with braces supported on corbels. 2 centred chancel arch with blind tracery on soffit. 2-centred tower arch. Late C12 font with square bowl. Small recumbent effigy in niche in south aisle marked by 2 reset C12 head-corbels. Pews, pulpit and most fittings Cl9. Tower screen and reredos early C20 by Rev. G. A. Coleman and Ringrose. C17 wall tablets reset under tower. Carving of east window and capitals of pillars by Grassby. "RCHM, Dorset, Vol III, Central", pp 145-147, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner, N "The Buildings of England; Dorset" Penquin, 1972, p 2699. Brocklebank, J "Victorian stone Carvers in Dorset Churches," Dovecote, 1979, p. 51. Listing NGR: ST7353805986

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