Description

SY 49 SE SHIPTON GORGE SHIPTON VILLAGE

2/244 Parish Church
of St Martin
5-9-60

GV II*

Parish Church. Early C15 west Tower. Rest of the church entirely
rebuilt 1862 by Hicks. West Tower, Coursed rubble-stone walls.
Clay tile roof with stone gable -copings. Stone crosses at chancel
gable, nave gable and porch gable. Nave, North aisle, Chancel,
South porch. West Tower, two stages, plinth mouldings, strings
and crenellated parapet. Large half-hexagonal newel stair on the
south wall. West doorway has chamfered jambs and a triangular
arch in a square head with blank shields and cleavers in the
spandrels. Restored 3-light window over has trefoil-cusping and
panel tracery. Hollow-chamfered jambs. 2-light bell-openings
with quatrefoil heads. Nave, C19, three 2-light windows, cusped
in a square head. Chancel: window of same design, East window,
3-light with panel tracery. Label with head stops. Small single
light over. Diagonal buttresses at the corners. Interior:
Tower-arch with a bracket moulding is modern (RCHM). 4-bay north
arcade with quatrefoil piers and 4-centred arches. C19 roof of
arch-braced type carried on hammer-beams. High collars. Chancel-
arch, pointed with a bracket-moulding and single respond. Foliage-
carved capitals. Filleted roll-mould to the soffit. 2-bay chancel
with similar roof construction. North aisle roof, with its own
arch-braced construction, carried on carved corbels. Fittings:
Font, heptagonal bowl with simple cusped panels, 3 to a side,
plain cylindrical stem, becoming heptagonal beneath the bowl.
Pulpit, C19, stone, by Grassby. Half-octagonal with cusped panel-
sides. Running leaf-scroll to cornice. Wall-Tablet, white marble
scroll on a slate base. Sacred to the memory of Jacob Browne,
died October 24th 1817, aged 70 years.
RCHM Dorset I, p 221 (1). J Brocklebank: Victorian Stone Carvers
in Dorset Churches 1856-1880, p 59.

Listing NGR: SY4980691459

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542988

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