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St Gabriel's Church, Stanton St Gabriel

Description: St Gabriel's Church

Grade: II
Date Listed: 5 September 1960
English Heritage Building ID: 401245

OS Grid Reference: SY4051893800
OS Grid Coordinates: 340518, 93800
Latitude/Longitude: 50.7408, -2.8443

Location: A35, Stanton St Gabriel, Dorset DT6 6DS

Locality: Stanton St Gabriel
Local Authority: West Dorset
County: Dorset
Country: England
Postcode: DT6 6DS

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Listing Text

SY 49 SW STANTON ST GABRIEL MORECOMBELAKE

6/112 St Gabriel's Church
5.9.60
- II

Chapel-of-Ease. Built 1841 on a fresh site. Nave and Chancel. Rubble walls
with ashlar stone quoins. Slate roof with stone gable copings. Sanctus bell
cote at west gable end, with stone coping and cross over. West end porch with
trefoil panel with "God is Love" carved thereon. 2-centred arch entrance with
straight chamfer. North vestry with lower pitched roof and pointed door in
the west wall. Whole structure is of one storey with paired stone mullion
windows with 4-centred heads. These are trefoil-cusped in the chancel with
labels over.

Interior: chancel-arch with straight chamfers and sunk quadrant mouldings
dying into the responds. Chancel roof with wooden scissor-bracing. East
window with ogee panel tracery. Wooden rood-beam and attached responds
salvaged from old St Gabriel's Church. Pulpit: wooden, hexagonal with plain
trefoil-cusped panels. Font: C19 stone bowl and stem with one band of inter-
lace ornament. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 223 (2). '_.


Listing NGR: SY4051893800

Source: English Heritage

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