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Church of St Andrew

A Grade I Listed Building in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.9277 / 50°55'39"N

Longitude: -2.0354 / 2°2'7"W

OS Eastings: 397607

OS Northings: 114255

OS Grid: ST976142

Mapcode National: GBR 300.N7L

Mapcode Global: FRA 66MN.8WC

Plus Code: 9C2VWXH7+3R

Entry Name: Church of St Andrew

Listing Date: 18 March 1955

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1153744

English Heritage Legacy ID: 107429

ID on this website: 101153744

Location: Gussage St Andrew, Dorset, DT11

County: Dorset

Civil Parish: Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge

Traditional County: Dorset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Sixpenny Handley with Gussage St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description


SIXPENNY HANDLEY
ST 91 SE GUSSAGE ST ANDREW

5/93 Church of St Andrew
18.3.55
GV 1

Chapel of Ease, C12 nave, C13 chancel with alterations of the C14, C16, C18
and C19. Flint, part rendered, with ashlar dressings. Tiled roof with
sprocketted eaves and wooden west bellcote. Plan: structurally undivided
nave and chancel. North wall has a C13 chamfered, pointed lancet to the
chancel and C12 round-headed lancet to nave. C16 west window of 3 lights
under square head. South nave wall has a C19 2 light window west and C18
window of 2 square headed lights east. The south chancel wall has a C13
window of 2 trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil spandrel under a pointed
head with moulded label. The south doorway has a pointed head with sunk
chamfer and continuous jambs. The east window is of 2 restored C13 lancets.
Cl4 north doorway with chamfered pointed head and chamfered jambs. The south
wall bears much evidence of rebuilding and contains a blocked C12 doorway.

Internal features: C15 nave roof with 5 queen-strut, tie beam trusses and
chamfered wall-plates; C19 waggon roof to chancel; C13 niche and piscina;
late C17 pulpit with chip carved panelled sides and steps having turned
balusters; C12 font with round bowl on cylindrical stem; C15 glass roundel;
most glass C19; C13 or C14 wall-paintings including the Betrayal, the
Scourging, the Crucifixion, the Deposition and the Suicide of Judas;
C18 floorslabs. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p 65/6, no. 2. Newman, J and Pevsner, N.
The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p 219).


Listing NGR: ST9760714256

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