Description

MOSTERTON MOSTERTON VILLAGE
ST 40 NE
2/237 CHURCH OF ST MARY
GV II

Parish Church. 1833 by Edmund Pearce, built on a new site. West Tower,
Nave, north porch, chancel. Ashlar stone walls, corrugated asbestos and
tile roofs. Stone gable-copings. West Tower, 3 stages, with clasping
buttresses for 2 stages. West door with pointed arch. Label with crude
head-stops. 3-light west window, with same label. Single-light bell-
openings with a label over. String cornice and plain parapet. Nave: 4
bays with right-angle buttresses. Single lancets and labels. North door
at centre of north side, moulded surround. 2-leaf pointed door with recess-
panels. Stone porch with stone seats, pitched slate roof and stone gable-
coping. Interior: pointed arch into tower. Plain splays to the lancets.
Lozenge-leading. Short wall-shafts stand on head-stops. Canted ceiling.
Chancel-arch, pointed with a straight chamfer, stopped. Short chancel,
with a 3-light east window (lancets). Fittings: wooden gallery at west end
standing on 4 reeded columns. Stained glass, C20, in east window: Risen
Christ over the agricultural community, ie a combine harvester, tractor
ploughing.
Source: RCHM Dorset I, p170(1).

Listing NGR: ST4576105527

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Mary at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26578144

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)