Description

STURMINSTER MARSHALL
ST 90 SE
CHURCH STREET
4/62
Church of St Mary
18.3.55 The Virgin
- II*
Parish church. C12, with C13 extensions, C14 and C15 changes, tower rebuilt
1805, and substantial restoration of 1859, by Henry Woodyer. Walls of
ironstone rubble, with limestone dressings; plinth, stepped buttresses,
hood-moulds. Tile roof. Continuous nave and chancel, with wide north aisle
continuing into a chapel (with a small vestry of 1859 at its east end),
south porch (mostly 1859), and west tower (the upper part of 1859). All the
windows are 'Decorated' or 'Perpendicular', of the restoration date, with a
lancet opening into a tall sedilia. The tower is of three stages, with
weathered offsets, flat corner buttresses, a crenellated parapet and corner
pinnacles. Inside, apart from the Norman arcade on later square columns,
the features are all Victorian; there is a tall wood screen, plaster-barrel
vaults to nave and aisle, a pulpit with an ogee base, a 'Norman' font, and a
series of monuments, floor slabs and brasses (mostly C19) and a C17 helm.
The chancel has three stained glass windows by John Hardman & Co. The porch
has some earlier parts and opens onto a Tudor south doorway; it
accommodates two medieval coffin slabs. RCHM

Listing NGR: ST9512100402

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17537948

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)