Listed Building record MDO10393 - Church of St Mary, Piddlehinton

Parish Church built in Perpendicular style. The tower and south aisle were built in the fifteenth century, and the chancel, nave and south port in the sixteenth century. The north porch was added, the nave extended and general restorations carried out in 1867. The 1867 work by E Christian. The building has walls of ashlar and banded flint and rubble with ashlar dressings.

Parish Church of St. Mary, Piddlehinton with south tower and south aisle built in the second half of the 15th century, although an early 14th century coffin-lid in the north porch suggests that a church existed at that period. The chancel, north colonnade of the nave and south porch are of the early 16th century although the nave and north aisle were enlarged in 1867 when the north porch was also added. <2-3>

Le Pard, Gordon, 1998, Medieval sundials in Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 119, 79-80 (Article in serial). SDO21411.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, 1959 (Map). SDO10373.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 207-9 (Monograph). SDO136.

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 312-3 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454802 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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