Listed Building record MDO5445 - Parish Church of St Hubert, Corfe Mullen

A parish church with walls of carstone and local limestone, partly rendered, and a stone slate and tile roof. The chancel and nave, built in the mid-thirteenth century, appear to be the earliest part of the building. There are later additions, and the building underwent several episodes of repair and restoration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Parish Church of St. Hubert, Corfe Mullen has walls of carstone and limestone, roughly squared and coursed, and in part rendered.

The chancel and nave are of mid 13th century origin and the west tower was added in the early 14th century. The north chapel of around 1400, originally the porch, was altered to its present form in the 19th century. The brick-built south transept was added in 1841 and the church was repaired or restored in 1880, 1865 and 1930. <2>

The Parish Church of St. Hubert, Corfe Mullen (Monograph). SDO18264.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1934 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 97679835) St Hurbert's Church (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 101 (Monograph). SDO148.

'(1) The Parish Church of St. Hubert stands to the S.E. of the village. The older walls are of carstone and local limestone roughly squared and coursed, in part rendered, with dressings of the same materials. The roofs are covered with stone slates and tiles. The Chancel and Nave are of mid 13th-century origin and the West Tower was added early in the 14th century. The North Chapel of c. 1400, originally the N. porch, was altered to its present form in the 19th century. The South Transept, of brick, was added in 1841, the date on one of its roof bosses. The church was repaired or restored in 1850, 1865 and 1930, and the South Vestry and South Lobby are of the second half of the 19th century.

The size and position of the 1841 addition to the church are interesting expressions of Anglican worship at the time, the chancel thus becoming subservient to the 'preaching' nave.'

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 169 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457196 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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