Description

SY 59 NW NORTH POORTON NORTH POORTON

8/180 Parish Church of
St Mary Magdelene

GV II

Parish Church. 1861-2 by Hicks. Nave, Chancel, north Porch, with
small Bell-Tower, south-east Vestry. North elevation: rubble-
stone walls and chamfered plinth. Ashlar stone dressings. Plain
and fish-scale tile roof with stone gable-copings and gableted
moulded kneelers. Crosses at each gable-apex. Low buttresses with
2 set-offs. One storey with a steep-pitched roof. 4 windows,
single lancets chamfered, and with cusped ogee heads. North porch:
entrance has chamfered jambs with nook-shafts and foliage capitals,
pointed-arch head with roll and hollow mouldings, Short bell-tower
in angle between porch and nave. 3 stage, square broached into
octagonal in the 2 upper stages. Singles lancets to each face in
the bell-stage with pierced trefoils over, each side gabled, and
with grotesque head-stops. Octagonal spirelet, ribbed along each
arris. Chancel: 2 windows, same lancets, though with labels and
foliage stops. East window of 3 stepped cusped lancets, label and
stops. South-east vestry, off chancel, under a pentice tile roof
with gable-copings. Coupled lancet window. Interior: Nave-windows
have segmental-pointed rere-arches. Roof: High arch-braced collar
type, with the braces carried on short hammer-beams; these braced
down onto carved stone corbels. Naturalistic foliage and angel-
supporters with scrolls. Pointed chancel-arch with naturalistic
foliage capitals, short responds corbelled off with angel-supporters.
Chancel has scissor-braced arch-bracing carried on foliage-carved
corbels. Segmental-pointed doorway to vestry. Pulpit, by Boulton.
Stone, half-octagonal, corbelled-out from a squared-off base. 4
carved panels, with diaper foliage ornament. Foliage cornice.
Angels in roundels to each panel. Centre panel has ogee niche with
cusped head, and carved figure of Christ in the round. Standards at
corners with small heads and finials. Font, stone, octagonal bowl
and circular base, foiled designs to each face, C19. Small round
font bowl on short base, from old church. Stained Glass: East
window, Christ Crucified in a mandorla with Saints John and Mary
to each side. Grisaille glass with foliage patterns in side
windows. The architectural sculpture in the church is of some
quality.
Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 180(1). J. Brocklebank, Victorian
Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches, p 53 ff.

Listing NGR: SY5188698109

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26511088

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