Listed Building record MDO4897 - Parish church of St Mary, Tarrant Gunville

Parish church, nave, aisles and south porch of late 14th century origin, west tower 15th century, partially rebuilt 16th century. Remainder of church and general restoration 1843 to 1845. 19th century work by T H Wyatt. Flint with random squared rubble blocks, banded flint and ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with stone copings. Plan: nave, chancel, west tower, north and south aisles, south porch and north vestry. Wall arcading re-set high up in the south wall of the north aisle indicates a former church of about AD 1100.

The west tower of St. Mary's Church is Perpendicular, and some 14th century work is incorporated in the rest of the church which was rebuilt in stone and flint in 1844-5.

Wall arcading re-set high up in the south wall of the north aisle indicates a former church of about 1100. <1> <3> <4>

Church of St Mary, parish church, nave, aisles and south porch of late C14th origin, West tower C15th, partially rebuilt C16th. C19th restoration by T H Wyatt. <5>

Le Pard, Gordon, 1998, Medieval sundials in Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 119, 72 Fig 3.6, 82 (Article in serial). SDO21411.

<1> DOE (HHR), 1954, List of Buildings of Special Historic or Architectural Interest: Blandford Rural District, 16 (Scheduling record). SDO17701.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

ST 9252 1266: Church (NAT)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 88-90 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(1) THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY stands in the S.W. of the village. Wall arcading discovered during the 19th century and reset in the N.aisle, above the eastern bay of the nave arcade, indicates a former church of c.1100. The western part of the North and South Aisles, the South Porch and the tower arch are of late 14th-century origin. The Tower was completed by the early 15th century, but the top stage appears to have been partly rebuilt in the 16th century. In 1843 the Chancel and Nave were rebuilt, the aisles were reroofed and North Vestry was added (Ecclesiologist, III (1943), 59,96; XI (1850),207; XII (1851),122-5).'

<4> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 416-7 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<5> DOE (HHR), 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset District, 14 (Scheduling record). SDO17732.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210278 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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