Listed Building record MDO10796 - St Mary's church, Mosterton

A Parish church built by Edmund Pearce in 1833. Consisting of a West Tower, Nave, north porch and chancel. Construction is ashlar stone walls and a corrugated asbestos and tile roof with stone gable-copings.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 170 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(1) Parish church of St. Mary, formerly a chapel of South Perrott, stands in the village. The walls are of ashlar and the roofs are tile-covered. It was entirely rebuilt, on a new site, in 1833, and consists of Chancel, Nave, W. Tower and N. Porch. The wall openings have two-centred heads, most of the windows being of wide lancet form. Inside, across the W. end of the nave, is a gallery, carried on four fluted columns, with panelled front and painted inscription recording the rebuilding ; the roofs have been ceiled. The church contains some fittings from the older building.

Fittings – Bell: one, dated 1617 or 1627. Brass: S. of the church, set in a slab, to Abraham Hull, 1838, Joseph George Hull, 1840, and with later inscriptions. Font: plain octagonal bowl with hollow-chamfered lower edge, cylindrical stem, medieval, base modern. Plate: includes a cup and cover-paten (Plate 138), the former with a baluster-stem, repoussé ornament and an inscription with the date 1714.'

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