Description

WEST DEAN RECTORY HILL
SU 22 NE
(west side)
11/157 Church of St Mary
II

Anglican parish church. 1866, by Pownall and Young. Flint with
brick lacings and dressings, Bath stone dressings to windows, door
and buttresses, and tiled roof. Nave and apsidal chancel, porch in
south west corner, north organ chamber with lean-to vestry attached
to west face. Bellcote over west end of nave. Paired lancet
windows in bays defined by pilasters rising from extended stone
sills to brick corbel table. Gable in transept position with
sexfoil wheel window. Buttresses to transept gabled, and pilasters
around apse. Central high west buttress flanked by 2-light
windows. Porch has chamfered arch on brick piers and raking corner
buttresses. Trefoiled side lights. Roof apsidal over chancel,
with iron cross. Timber framed belltower with tile hung skirt, and
clock. Pyramidal spire of alternating bands of plain and fish
tailed tiles. Inner porch door boarded with ironwork fittings,
within moulded arch.
Interior: Nave of 4 bays, plastered. Rere-arches to lancets.
Crown post trusses with 2 tiers of purlins and open rafters.
Chancel arch on corbels, with hoodmould. Arched opening to vestry.
Chancel raised 3 steps, tiled and barrel vaulted. Single arch to
organ chamber and arch to apse with painted half dome. On north
side, C13-C14 aumbrey, square with moulded surround and medieval
encaustic tiles at back. Piscina to south, also medieval and lined
with medieval tiles, medieval cantilever bowl broken. Fittings:
probably C12 bowl font with cable moulding around base, reset C19
on 8 squat marble columns and waterleaf capitals. Low stone screen
to chancel with moulded coping, leading into stone pulpit with
stone bookrest. Lectern a reset C12 column with waterleaf capital
and leaf base. Reredos 1874, limestone, with Agnus Dei and cross
within crocketed gable on marble columns. C19 pine choir stalls
and bench pews to nave. Furniture: Altar, a C17 communion table.
Chest, also C17 with lightly carved arches. Bible box, also C17
and carved front, containing an 1812 bible with Knight's
Commentaries. C18 table with drawer. Carpets: In nave, (a) C19.
Double medallion with 3 stripes, probably Shurvan. (b) behind
altar, Caucasian, 4 stripes with central medallion of hooked
design. (c) In vestry, a Shirgaz, cropped short, (d) in organ
chamber a second Caucasian in poor condition. Monuments: Two
painted limestone Commandment,tablets with gilded lettering, C19.
Glass: Six windows by Morris & Co. 1916-17, one with portrait.

Listing NGR: SU2569727232

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429078

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)