Listed Building: ALL SAINTS CHURCH (103723)

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Grade NG
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1647/2/3
Date assigned 02 September 1986
Date last amended

Description

LANGTON LONG BLANDFORD - ST 80 NE 2/3 All Saints Church Parish church, 1861 by T H Wyatt. Flint with ashlar bonding courses and flint with ashlar blocks. Slate roofs with gable stone copings. Plan: nave; chancel; north aisle; north and south transepts; west tower, south porch. Tower: 3 stage with weathered strings, embattled parapet with crocketted pinnacles and string with gargoyles; diagonal buttresses to first 2 stages; 2 light pointed Perpendicular west window; belfry has square-headed, 2-light Perpendicular windows with returned labels; octagonal ashlar north vice. Main body of church has 2 and 3-light Perpendicular tracery windows under square and pointed heads. Interior features: 2 bay, pointed, moulded arcade on octagonal piers with moulded caps and bases; pointed moulded transept arches with moulded caps; pointed, moulded chancel arch with continuous jambs, panelled waggon roof to chancel; 4-bay quasi-hammer beam roof with arch-braced collars springing from carved corbels to the nave; arch-braced collar beam roofs to the transepts; open traceried pulpit on stone base; C19 octagonal stone font with carved, panelled sides on central cylindrical pier with 4 marble sub-shafts; C19 pews; reset brass of 1457 to John Whitewood and his first and second wives Joanna and Alicia with black-letter inscription; a number of C18, C19 and C20 monuments, some reset and some in-situ; C19 glass. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.IV, p.44, no.1. Newman, J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p250/1.) Listing NGR: ST8981705920

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Location

Grid reference ST 8981 0591 (point)
Civil Parish Langton Long Blandford; Dorset
District (historic) North Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Feb 15 2010 10:33AM