Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (403809)

WEST COMPTON SY 59 SE WEST COMPTON 5/145 Church of St Michael 3-3-82 GV II Former Parish Church, now declared redundant. 1858 chancel, 1867 remainder, by John Hicks of Dorchester. Snecked dressed stone walls with ashlar quoins. Slate roofs with stone gable-copings with moulded kneelers, and crosses at apices. Integral gabled porch with stone bellcote over, gabled and with bell in situ. Nave with north aisle. Chancel. North porch. Single storey. Chancel, of 2 bays with single chamfered lancets and lozenge-leaded lights. 3 stepped lancets to east end, plain. North doorway, pointed, has a plank door with strap hinges. Nave, 4 bays, single chamfered lancets on south side. North aisle, with separately pitched roof, has 3 grouped lancets. North porch, immediately west of north aisle has an entrance with pointed segmental head of 2 chamfered orders, the inner dying into the jambs. Lancet-light over. Doorway into church, pointed-arch, chamfered, plank door with original strap hinges. Interior: arch-braced open roof; wooden screen closes off north aisle (possibly for school room). Contemporary fittings, except font, probably C13 but heavily recut. (RCHM Dorset I, p.99(1). J Brocklebank; Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-1880, p.62). Listing NGR: SY5620094351

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