Description

WITCHAMPTON ST 9806 WITCHAMPTON VILLAGE

13/129 Church of St Mary, St Cuthberga and All 18.3.55 Saints

GV II*

Anglican Parish Church. Tower C15, the rest rebuilt 1832-40. Architect unknown. Vestry added 1898. Tower walls of ironstone and greensand banding, rest of church of ashlar and flint banding, with ashlar dressings. Tiled roofs, with coped gables. Nave, chancel with vestry on south, north and south transepts, west tower. Tower, of 2 stages, has battlemented parapet with string course and carved gargoyles. Deep moulded plinth, and string course between stages. Diagonal buttresses. Rectangular stair turret on north face. 2-light Perpendicular style windows to belfry. On west face, below belfry, a 3-light Perpendicular window with hoodmould and carved head finials. West door C19, but flanked by re-set datestones, 1632. South wall of nave, west part, has central buttress and 2 square _ headed 2-light windows. South transept and vestry with twin gables, diagonal and central buttresses. Datestone on transept 1832. 3-light window with geometrical tracery. Vestry has a square-headed 3-light window. Pointed arched doorway in east vestry wall. Main east window of 4-lights, in Perpendicular style. North wall of chancel has central buttress and 2 square-headed 3-light windows. North transept, gabled, has 3-light Perpendicular style window and diagonal buttresses. North wall of nave has 2 square-headed 2-light windows and central buttress. Internally, walls plastered. Nave, chancel and transepts have pointed waggon roofs with plastered panels, moulded ribs and carved bosses. Double sedilia in chancel. Chancel arch of 2 orders with inner order carried on carved corbels. Transept arches have octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Tower arch of 2 orders, the inner order carried on grotesque head corbels. Simple octagonal medieval font on C19 base. C18 octagonal panelled oak pulpit. Good monument, 1636 in north transept, to John Cole, with pilasters carrying entablature, and coat of arms. In south transept, wall monument dated 1542 and brass dated 1547. Several late C18 and C19 wall tablets. (R.C.H.M. Monument 1. Dorset Vol V).

Listing NGR: ST9885506440

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