Latitude: 50.8502 / 50°51'0"N
Longitude: -2.811 / 2°48'39"W
OS Eastings: 343004
OS Northings: 105949
OS Grid: ST430059
Mapcode National: GBR MF.VPNP
Mapcode Global: FRA 560V.DQB
Plus Code: 9C2VV52Q+3J
Entry Name: Church of St John
Listing Date: 11 November 1966
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1211689
English Heritage Legacy ID: 396211
ID on this website: 101211689
Location: St John's Church, Seaborough, Dorset, DT8
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Seaborough
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Seaborough St John
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Church building
SEABOROUGH SEABOROUGH VILLAGE
ST 40 NW
11.11.66
1/239 CHURCH OF ST JOHN
GV II
Parish Church. Mainly rebuilt 1882 by Crickmay. North chapel, dated
1729. Medieval window material incorporated. Nave and chancel, north
chapel, south porch. Dressed stone walls. Slate roof with tile cresting.
Stone gable-copings. Stone crosses at east gable end, and head of bell-
cote. One storey. 5 windows. South elevation: 3-light stone mullion
windows, cusped, with square head over. 2-lighter with a pointed cusped
head and quatrefoil in a pointed head over. Dressed stone voussoirs.
Buttresses: divide nave from chancel, with 2 set-offs, at corner of chancel
similarly. South porch, rubble base and stone above. Pitched gable with
slate and stone slate roof. Stone gable-coping. Stone bell-cote on west
gable, with 2 cinquefoiled arches, with labels over. One small trefoil-
cusped light. Stone gable-coping and cross over. Two C15 windows re-used:
in nave north wall, and in the west wall. North chapel, dated 1729, in
tablet over window. Ashlar with rusticated stone quoins. Stone gable-
coping. 3-light, C18 stone mullion window with round octofoil in head.
Square stone label, with stone label-stops. Interior: nave and chancel
differentiated by coupled short responds carried on single foliage bases.
Roof: wooden barrel-vault, compartmented. Stained glass in north chapel
window, early C20. Monuments: (1) Tapering slab with small stone effigy
of a Knight in armour, C13. (2) Marble tablet with corbel-cartouche,
shell-cornice and bust on plinth, to Adam Martin, 1738-9.
Source: RCHM Dorset I, p199(1).
Listing NGR: ST4300405949
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