Listed Building record MDO17872 - Parish Church (dedication unknown), Dorchester Road, Lytchett Minster

A parish church of unknown dedication. The church was built in the medieval period though the west tower, of fifteenth-century date, is all that can now be seen of that earlier church. The rest of the church was built in 1833. The building has walls of buff-coloured brick with some stone dressings on a rubble plinth. The west tower is of roughly-squared carstone rubble.

Parish Church at Lytchett Minster (dedication unknown) has walls of buff-coloured brick with some stone dressings above a rubble plinth. The west tower of roughly squared carstone rubble dates from the 15th century and is all that remains of the Medieval church. The remainder of the church was built in 1833. Grade B. <2,3,4,5>

Le Pard, Gordon, 1998, Medieval sundials in Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 119, 77 (Article in serial). SDO21411.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in (Map). SWX1540.

Church (NAT)

<2> DOE (HRR), 1952, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wareham and Purbeck Rural District 1952, p50 (Scheduling record). SWX3230.

<3> DOE (HRR), 30 Aug 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of Purbeck amendment 1984, 27 (Scheduling record). SWX2923.

<4> English Heritage, 2006, Listed buildings data disk (Digital archive). SDO12545.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 157 (Monograph). SDO148.

'(1) THE PARISH CHURCH (dedication unknown) stands in the village. The walls are of buff-coloured brick with some stone dressings above a rubble plinth, except in the tower which has walls of roughly squared carstone rubble; the roofs are covered with slate. The West Tower of the 15th century is all that remains of the mediaeval church; the Chancel, Nave, Vestry and Porch were all built in 1833, by John Tulloch of Wimborne, contractor (British Magazine, Sept. 1833). …'

<6> Pevsner, N, and Lloyd, D, 1973, Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 263-4 (Monograph). SWX3503.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457403 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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