Description

SY 49 SW STANTON ST GABRIEL MORECOMBELAKE

6/112 CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL
5.9.60
- II

Chapel-of-Ease. Built 1841 on a fresh site. Nave and Chancel. Rubble walls
with ashlar stone quoins. Slate roof with stone gable copings. Sanctus bell
cote at west gable end, with stone coping and cross over. West end porch with
trefoil panel with "God is Love" carved thereon. 2-centred arch entrance with
straight chamfer. North vestry with lower pitched roof and pointed door in
the west wall. Whole structure is of one storey with paired stone mullion
windows with 4-centred heads. These are trefoil-cusped in the chancel with
labels over.

Interior: chancel-arch with straight chamfers and sunk quadrant mouldings
dying into the responds. Chancel roof with wooden scissor-bracing. East
window with ogee panel tracery. Wooden rood-beam and attached responds
salvaged from old St Gabriel's Church. Pulpit: wooden, hexagonal with plain
trefoil-cusped panels. Font: C19 stone bowl and stem with one band of inter-
lace ornament. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 223 (2). '_.

Listing NGR: SY4051893800

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26576326

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)