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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543290

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