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Latitude: 50.8595 / 50°51'34"N
Longitude: -2.088 / 2°5'16"W
OS Eastings: 393905
OS Northings: 106666
OS Grid: ST939066
Mapcode National: GBR 30X.0XQ
Mapcode Global: FRA 66JT.LDX
Plus Code: 9C2VVW56+QR
Entry Name: Church of St Mary
Listing Date: 26 June 1953
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1154056
English Heritage Legacy ID: 103773
ID on this website: 101154056
Location: Tarrant Rawston, Dorset, DT11
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Tarrant Rawston
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Tarrant Monkton with Tarrant Launceston All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Church building
TARRANT RAWSTON
ST 90 NW -
3/53 Church of St Mary
26.6.53
GV II*
Redundant Parish Church, now private chapel, C14 origin with late C14 or early
C15 alterations, C16 porch and south chapel, C18 chancel, north chapel and
further alterations. Flint and squared rubble with ashlar dressings, tiled roofs
with stone-slate margins. Plan: nave, short chancel, north and south transeptal
chapels; south porch with bellchamber over. Windows are mainly of 2 or 3-trefoiled
lights with Perpendicular tracery. C20 gallery window in west gable apex. Bell-
chamber has single trefoiled opening. Porch has chamfered circular arch with
continuous jambs.
Internal features. C18 semi-circular chancel arch with moulded imposts;
transept arches are chamfer semi-circular with moulded imposts and chamfered
jambs, that to the south being C16 and that to the north an C18 copy; polygonal
C17 timber pulpit with moulded panelling below and chip carved panelling above,
carved cornice with integral reading desk. C19 seating incorporating some C17
timberwork; plastered barrel vault ceilings, probably C18; early C19 gallery
with panelled and moulded front; octagonal stone font on octagonal pier bearing
quatrefoils and dated 1868; late C18 turned communion rails; reset medieval
floor tiles with slip decoration; baroque monument dated 1788 to Radford and
Thomas Gundry having skull and crossbones and scrolled cheek pieces (a late date
for this style of monument.) (RCHM, Dorset, vol.IV, p.110/1, no.1. Newman, J
and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.419.)
Listing NGR: ST9390506666
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