Listed Building record MDO33077 - All Saints Church, Mapperton

Church attached to Mapperton House, constructed during the 12th century, with 15th century additions. Parts were rebuilt in 1704, 1846 and 1908. 12th century chancel, truncated 15th century west tower, nave rebuilt 1704, south porch 1846, and vestry restored in 1980.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 154 (Monograph). SDO97.

’(1) Parish Church of All Saints stands immediately S.W. of Mapperton House. It was formerly a chapel of Netherbury. The walls are of local rubble with ashlar and dressings of the same material; the roofs are slate-covered. The Chancel is of uncertain date but was built perhaps in the 12th century. The West Tower is in part of the 15th century. The Nave was rebuilt by Richard Brodrepp in 1704; the tower was repaired and pinnacles and parapet added c. 1770, these have now been removed and the tower is under a continuation of the nave roof. The church was restored and the South Porch added in 1846, and the South Vestry was restored in 1908.
Architectural Description—The Chancel (17¾ ft. by 12½ ft.) has an E. window of mediæval date but with the head renewed in 1846. In the N. wall is a modern doorway. In the S. wall is a modern doorway incorporating the W. jamb of an earlier window. The chancel-arch of 1704 is two-centred and chamfered; the chamfered responds have moulded imposts.
The Nave (26¼ ft. by 19 ft.) was rebuilt in 1704 and has three windows in both the N. and S. walls, all of two round-headed lights in a square head. The reset 13th-century S. doorway has a trefoiled head with lobed points and above it is a panel inscribed "Sumptibus Ri. Brodrepp Armig. Anno Dom. 1704".
The West Tower (12 ft. by 9¼ ft.) is now of one stage only with a modern bell-cote on the W. wall. The tower-arch is uniform with the chancel-arch. There is a stair-turret in the S.E. angle. The 15th-century W. doorway, now blocked, has jambs and three-centred arch of two orders with the string-course carried over as a label. The W. window is modern.
Fittings—Bell: one, uninscribed and inaccessible. Chair: In chancel—with turned front legs, shaped arms, enriched rails, carved back and scrolled cresting, made up with 17th-century materials. Communion Rails: with turned balusters, plain rails and central gate, c. 1704. Doors: In S. doorway—with strap-hinges, 16th or 17th-century, with modern work. In stair-turret of tower—of vertical battens with strap-hinges, 17th-century or earlier. Font: In vestry— cylindrical bowl, upper part plain, lower part with scalloped ornament, 12th-century Glass: In nave—in N.E. window, 16th-century roundels with figures of a bishop or abbot, the prodigal son and Prudence, also English shields-of-arms of Horsey and Cheverell and three roundels of foreign heraldry; in second N. window, 16th-century foreign panels with St. Anne and the Virgin, the Crucifixion, the Nailing to the Cross and the Conversion of St. Paul, also two 16th-century English shields-of-arms with garters, the first a quartered coat, made up, the second damaged royal Tudor arms, also three roundels of foreign heraldry, one dated 1616; in N.W. window, English 16th-century shields-of-arms of Morgan quartered and impaling Ashton quartered. Peverel impaling Bardolf, Bardolf, Brett (?), Strangeways, Trenchard (?), Malet, also foreign fragments; in S.E. window, English 16th-century shields of the quartered arms of Paulet in a garter, the quartered arms of Russell in a garter, Fauntleroy (?), three roses and five foreign roundels of heraldry; in middle S. window, six roundels of foreign heraldry including one of Jerusalem dated 1632, four 16th-century English shields-of-arms of Baynard (?), Peverel impaling Bardolf, and two unidentified coats, also a foreign roundel with the figure of a woman, also a woman's head dated 1509; in S.W. window, English 16th-century shields of the quartered arms of Morgan, Morgan impaling Twiniho, quartered arms of Miller and the arms of Peverel, three foreign panels with figures of women and a child, two with heraldry, one dated 1615 and a foreign figure, perhaps St. Bartholomew. In tower—in W. window, to William Munro Aitchison, son of Capt. Aitchison, R.N., 1850, the Resurrection and Ascension with I.H.S. in the head. Monument: In the chancel is a monument (Plate 134) signed by P. Scheemakers to Richard Brodrepp, 1737, and his children, George and Etheldred, with busts and shield-of-arms. Plate: includes a cup of 1675, cover-paten with the same hall-marks but inscribed as the gift of Richard Brodrepp, 1674, and a handled basin of 1710 given in 1814. Seating: In tower—seat with panelled back and board above with the name and date Ri. Brodrepp, 1711, and a shield inscribed 1641 I.R.'

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1973 (Map). SWX1197.

(SY50299965) All Saints Church [NAT]

<4> Department of the Environment, 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset (Parishes of Burstock, Broadwindsor, Mapperton, Netherbury, North Poorton, Pilsdon, Powerstock and Stoke Abbott) (Scheduling record). SDO16351.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 884139 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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