Listed Building record MDO4275 - Catholic Church of Our Lady, Marnhull

Catholic Church of 1832 with extension of 1886. built in coursed, squared rubble, ashlar and render. Nave has Roman-tiled roof with stone slate verges, Chancel has steep pitched gable-ended tiled roof.

St Mary, Old Mill, 1832. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 152 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(2) THE CHAPEL OF ST. MARY (78332008), Roman Catholic, stands 1,500 yards N. of the parish church and is of roughly coursed rubble with a tiled and stone-slated roof. The Chancel and Nave were built in 1832 and an extension on the S. of the chancel was added about 1886. The N. wall of the nave has five weathered two-stage buttresses, and one chamfered two-centred lancet window in the W. bay. The S. wall has four larger windows of similar form; it has no buttresses. The W. porch is of ashlar with weathered diagonal buttresses; the W. doorway has a moulded two-centred head with continuous jambs and a concentric hood-mould.
Fittings—Plate: includes silver thurible with hallmark of 1733. [Vestments: Chasuble of c. 1300 transferred to V. and A. Museum, 1936.]’

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 270 (Monograph). SWX1290.

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

(ST78332008) Catholic Church of Our Lady [NAT]

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888757 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 23 2021 7:59PM