Listed Building record MDO1098 - St James' Parish Church, Lewcombe, East Chelborough

Parish church with walls of stone rubble with ashlar dressings. The earliest part of the building is twelth century; the windows are sixteenth century in date, and further alterations were made in the eighteenth century.

(ST 55890756) St James' Church [NAT]. (1)

Church of St James undivided Nave and Chancel. C12th core with C16th foundation and C18th alterations. Grade I. (2-4)

Listed Grade I. Listed as `Parish Church of St James.' (5)

For the designation record of this site please see The National Heritage List for England. (6)

Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1978 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 55890756) St James' Church [NAT].

Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 252 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 90 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(1) Parish Church of St. James, Lewcombe, stands in the extreme N.E. angle of the parish. The walls are of local rubble with some ashlar and dressings of the same material; the roofs are slate-covered. There was a church here in the 12th century, but the present church consisting of Chancel and Nave seems to have been rebuilt not earlier than the 16th century. It was altered in the 18th century when the W. wall was rebuilt or refaced and the bell-turret added.

Architectural Description—The Chancel and Nave (38½ ft. by 15 ft.) are structurally undivided. In the E. wall is an 18th-century round window. In the N. wall are two late 16th or 17th-century windows, of three four-centred lights in a square head. In the S. wall are two late 16th or 17th-century windows, the eastern of two and the western of three four-centred lights in square heads; between them is the W. jamb of a destroyed doorway, probably of the 16th century. The W. wall has a square-headed 18th-century doorway with architrave and cornice and a round window of the same date above it.

Fittings—Font: moulded octagonal bowl with baluster-stem, 18th-century. Monuments: In nave—on N. wall, (1) to Robert Dawe, 1727, and Joan, his wife, 1743, slate wall-tablet. In churchyard—W. of church, (2) to Mary, daughter of William Dawe, 1683 (?), and to Mary . . ., headstone; (3) to William Dawe, 1690, table-tomb.‘

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