Listed Building record MDO9433 - Church of Saint John the Baptist, Woodsford

(SY 76219057) St. John The Baptist's Church (NAT). (1)

Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, East Woodsford, built of local rubble with some stone and flint dressings and tiled roofs. The south and west walls of the nave and the west tower contain early 13th century masonry but the remainder of the
church was rebuilt in 1862-63. (3)

Parish Church of St John Baptist; Grade B. (2)

Church of St John the Baptist. Grade II. (4-5)

Le Pard, Gordon, 1998, Medieval sundials in Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 119, 85 (Article in serial). SDO21411.

Bellamy, P, 2016, Church of St John the Baptist, Woodsford, Dorset. Archaeological Observations and Recording of Works to Churchyard Wall, December 2016 (Unpublished document). SDO15016.

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<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 76219057) St. John The Baptist's Church (NAT

<2> DOE (HRR), 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorchester Rural District 1951, 73 (Scheduling record). SWX2329.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 397 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(1) THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST stands in the village of East Woodsford on the N. edge of the parish. The walls are of local rubble with some dressed stone and flint and limestone dressings; the roofs are tiled. The S. and W. walls of the nave and the W. tower contain early 13th-century masonry; the remainder of the church was rebuilt by T. H. Wyatt in 1862–3.
Architectural Description—The Nave has in the S. wall W. of the porch some early 13th-century masonry and a window of one lancet light with chamfered and rebated jambs externally under a modern label, wide internal splays and a two-centred chamfered rear arch. The W. wall has similar masonry in the lower courses with a chamfered plinth S. of the tower. The West Tower (5½ ft. square) is of three stages with a chamfered plinth; the first stage and lower part of the second are of the early 13th century. The E. doorway to the tower is in two orders, the inner two-centred and chamfered and dying out into the responds, the outer segmental-pointed with a continuous chamfer. The W. window is of a single light with a square chamfered head and shouldered rear arch. In the S. and W. walls of the second stage are rebuilt lancet windows similar to that in the nave; in the N. wall is a plain loop.
¶Fittings—Bell: one, by Thomas Purdue, of 1693. Coffin and Coffin-lid: S. of nave, lid with raised cross, 13th-century. Piscina: in S. chapel, in S. wall, with ogee trefoiled head, chamfered jambs and bowl with octagonal sinking, 14th-century reset.’

<4> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 494 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<5> Department of the Environment, 1987, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorset (Parishes of Athelhampton, Burleston, Charminster, Cheselbourne, Dewlish, Puddletown, Stinsford, Tincleton, Tolpuddle, West Stafford and Woodsford) (Scheduling record). SDO16448.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454916 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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