Listed Building record MDO26778 - Church of Holy Trinity, Godmanstone

Parish Church. C12 Chancel-arch and responds. C15, West Tower and north nave wall, C17 top stage to tower. Chancel rebuilt, C16 when north and south chapels added, and integral south porch.

(SY 66599737) Holy Trinity Church [NAT] (1)

The Parish Church of Holy Trinity, Godmanstone, is built of local flint and stone rubble, banded with flint and stone facings, and has freestone dressings. The chancel-arch and the south doorway
date from the 12th century and the rest of the nave was rebuilt perhaps in the 15th century when the west tower was added. The north and south chapels and south porch were added early in the
16th century and the chancel was rebuilt. In the 17th century the tower was partly rebuilt. The church was extensively restored in the 19th century; the north chapel and chancel being largely rebuilt, the latter in 1848. Grade B. (2,3)

Church of the Holy Trinity. Grade I. Pitman Monument, early C 18 table tomb. Grade II*. (4)

The C 12 tympanum over the south doorway is the only Dorset example with purely geometric ornament. (5)

Pevsner questions whether the fabric of the south doorway is truly Norman as suggested by Auth 2. (Auth 4 suggests it is a C19 restoration). (6)

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 66599737) Holy Trinity Church [NAT]

<2> DOE (HRR), 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorchester Rural District 1951, DoE (HHR) Dorchester RD Oct 1951 (32) (Scheduling record). SWX2329.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 120 (Monograph). SDO97.

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 1092614 Evaluation (Index). SDO14738.

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, GODMANSTONE

<5> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 217-218 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<6> Department of the Environment, 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset, DoE (HHR) West Dorset May 1985 (29) (Scheduling record). SDO16362.

<7> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1985, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1984, 9-10 19-20 (Serial). SDO84.

<8> English Heritage, 2006, Listed buildings data disk (Digital archive). SDO12545.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453008 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 16 2025 5:03PM