Description

ST 40 SW BURSTOCK BURSTOCK VILLAGE
11-11-1966
4/74 Parish Church of
St Andrew

GV II*

Parish Church. Nave, possibly C12 core, C15 west tower, and north
chapel, C20 chancel and south porch. Restoration of 1877. Ham stone
ashlar walls. Slate roofs with stone gable-copings and cross at east
gable. West Tower, 3 stages with diagonal and right-angle buttresses,
with set-offs. Bell-openings with Y-tracery. Crenellated parapet
with renewed pinnacles. Gargoyles. West doorway, pointed, with
moulded jambs. Nave, 2 windows, single light and 3-light stone
mullions with 4-centred heads. Separate labels over. South porch
with stone slab and slate roof with a stone gable-coping. Entrance with
pointed segmental head and chamfered jambs. Inner doorway with
continuous roll-moulded jambs, C12. Chancel has 3-light East window
with intersecting tracery. Stopped label over. Interior: large
tower-arch to nave with pointed head. Door up high beside the south
jamb. C15 chancel-arch of 2 respond-orders with casement moulding
in between. Nave and chancel both have plastered barrel ceiling.
Font: cylindrical stone bowl, with large rope-moulding round the centre,
lead-lined, C12. Moulded stone stem is C20. Piscina: N. chapel,
south wall, recess with ogee head and square drain, C15.
Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 56(1).

Listing NGR: ST4222602914

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542812

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