Description

SY 39 NE WOOTTON FITZPAINE WOOTTON LANE

2/215 Wootton Fitzpaine 5.9.60 Parish Church G.V. II*

Parish Church (dedication unknown). C14 and C15 with heavy Victorian restoration, (1872) by Birch. Central Tower, nave, chancel, north transept and vestry, south chapel, south porch. Rubble-stone walls with stone quoins and dressings. Slate roof with tiled ridge. Exterior: south elevation, south porch with slate gabled roof, with stone coping; pointed arch-entrance with 2 orders of responds, C15. Nave south window with 3 ogee-trefoil lights with quatrefoil reticulations over, under a flat head, all in stone, C19. South chapel of 2 bays with diagonal buttresses, moulded set-offs and embattled parapet. 2 4-light windows with trefoil-headed mullions and panel- tracery over, under a flat head. Hood mould and string-course with gargoyles; C19 rebuild. Chancel with 2-light trefoil-headed window with a quatrefoil over. Hood moulds over with head-stops, all re-used C14 material. Late C12 corbels under the C19 eaves. Central tower, 2 stages with strings and 2-light Victorian bell-openings. Plain parapet with 4 grotesques.

Interior: Scissor-braced nave roof with ashlaring, C19. Crossing, C14, with C14 mouldings and capital to north and south, corbelled off below in C19. Chancel: with pointed wood barrel-vault, ceiled, with embattled wall plate. Very wide arch into south chapel, 4-centred, C15. East window of 3 lights with reticulated tracery over. South chapel with Victorian flat-panelled ceiling and openwork wooden arch at bay-division. Features: font, stone with octagonal bowl, C19; re-used scallop-capital with cable necking C12, and short round stem with moulded base. Pulpit: made up of early C17 material with 2 tiers of round-arch-panels with fluted pilasters, oak. Altar Retable in stone, mosaic and tile, late C19. Wooden choir-stalls, late C19. Stained glass in south chapel, good and complex tabernacle work by G E Cook, late C19. Adoration of Shepherds; nativity; adoration of Kings. East window: Ascension, in memory of Luttrell family, post 1880. "RCHM Dorset I", p 265 (1). J Brocklebank, "Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches': 1856 - 1880", p 67.

Listing NGR: SY3714495641

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