Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST GEORGE (102878)

ST 73 SE BOURTON CHURCH TRACK 1/35 Church of 16.8.60. St George - II Parish Church, largely 1877/8, though probably incorporating work of 1812. Tower 1903-5. 1877/8 work by E Christian (Newman and Pevsner). Tower by C E Ponting. Coursed, squared rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs, gabled to nave and hipped, apsidal to chancel. Stone copings. Generally in the 'perpendicular' style. Plan: nave, chancel, west tower, south organ chamber and south porch. Tower: 2 stages with embattled parapet and corner crocketted pinnacles rising entire second stage: 2-centred west door with moulded, returned label; 2-light, 2- centred, west-window with returned label; ogee-headed bell openings with finials and louvres, paired to the east and west. Nave and organ chamber windows of 2-lights with 2-centred heads and returned labels. North and south chancel windows similar to nave, apse windows have single lights and flowing tracery. Nave and organ chamber have diagonal buttresses at angles and square set buttresses between windows. Gabled porch with ashlar south face and 2-centred doorway with returned label. Interior features: 2-centred, moulded chancel arch with semi-octagonal responds with capitals and bases, label with foliage carved stops over; 2-centred, tower arch with semi-octagonal responds having capitals and bases; Organ chamber arch is 2-centred springing from corbels; Arch-braced hammer-beam nave roof with arch braced collars and king-posts; ribbed and boarded chancel roof; C19/C20 traceried pulpit, C19/C20 octagonal font with carved panels on panelled octagonal pier; number of reset early C19 monuments; C19 and early C20 glass; C19 encaustic tiles in chancel; other fittings largely C19/C20. (RCHM Dorset, vol IV, p 3, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset. Penguin, 1972, p 105. Pitfield F P Dorset Parish Churches A-D, Dorset Publishing Company, 1981 , pp 87-9. Listing NGR: ST7683430311

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