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Church of St Basil

A Grade II* Listed Building in Toller Fratrum, Dorset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.7746 / 50°46'28"N

Longitude: -2.5989 / 2°35'56"W

OS Eastings: 357866

OS Northings: 97397

OS Grid: SY578973

Mapcode National: GBR PT.KD59

Mapcode Global: FRA 57F1.K9W

Plus Code: 9C2VQCF2+RC

Entry Name: Church of St Basil

Listing Date: 26 January 1956

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1228873

English Heritage Legacy ID: 403590

ID on this website: 101228873

Location: St Basil's Church, Toller Fratrum, Dorset, DT2

County: Dorset

Civil Parish: Toller Fratrum

Traditional County: Dorset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Maiden Newton and Valleys

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description


TOLLER FRATRUM
SY 59 NE -

2/121 Church of St Basil
26-1-56
GV II*

Parish Church. Mid C19. Nave and chancel in one. Rubble-stone walls and
dressed stone quoins. Slate roof with stone gable-copings and moulded kneelers.
Stone bellcote on west gable with bell. East gable with stone cross-in-wheel.
Single storey. 3 lancets, straight-chamfered. Returned label over each.
Diamond-leaded lights. East window: 3 steppe lancets with continuous label
over. West door, pointed arch, with moulded stone jambs. Two re-used
crowned head-stops set in either side.

Interior: pointed sanctuary arch (plain). Roof: of arch-braced collar
construction, carried on stone corbels, clasped purlins, moulded wall-plate
fittings: font: stone cylindrical bowl with band of interlace at top, cable
moulding below and at base, between them a series of 6 full-length figures,
one with cross-shaft, also half-figures and heads, also 3 enriched columns
supporting a monster with one head and 2 bodies; C12. Sculpture: re-set on
east wall of chancel, stone showing part of scene of St Mary Magdalene wiping
the feet of Christ, (her head and Christ's foot and lower drapery visible),
c.1130. Pews, with fielded-panel ends, C19.
(RCHM Dorset I, p.251 (1))


Listing NGR: SY5786697397

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