Listed Building record MDO14681 - Parish Church of St James, Longburton

Parish Church. C13 west tower. Chancel and nave rebuilt in C15. South porch added C15. North chapel built by Leweston Fitzjames, early C17. Restored in 1873, when north arcade was built, and north aisle added. Rubble-stone walls with freestone dressings. Clay-tile roofs with stone gable-copings, and gable-crosses.

(ST 6487 1275) St James' Church (NAT). (1)

Parish Church of St James. C13th West tower, Chancel and nave rebuilt in C15th. North chapel by Lewerston FitzJames, early C17th. Restored in 1873. Grade I. (2-4)

Gwynn-Jones, P, 1971, Speech made by Mr. P. Gwynn-Jones on the occasion of the dedication of the church monuments at Longburton (Monograph). SDO18177.

Le Pard, Gordon, 1998, Medieval sundials in Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 119, 77 (Article in serial). SDO21411.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 61-2 (Monograph). SDO97.

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 257 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1979 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 6487 1275) St James' Church (NAT)

<4> Department of the Environment, 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset (Parishes of Alton Pancras, Bishops Caundle, Buckland Newton, Caundle Marsh, Folke, Hermitage, Hilfield, Holnest, Holwell, Melcombe Horsey, Minterne Magna etc), DOE (HHR) West Dorset District May-1984 39 (Scheduling record). SDO16359.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887685 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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