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All Saints and St Mark

All Saints And St Mark

Parley Cross

Dorset

C12 nave, C14 chancel.

Architectural Features

C15 north porch, C16 nave extension, C18 features, restoration (and vestry) of 1896 (including the external wall of the chancel).

Roof of tiles, with lower courses of stone slates.

The east window is medieval, the nave has three C18 Gothic trefoil-headed lights, the chancel with smaller lights of similar form.

The porch is timber framed on a stone base, with a bargeboard of cusped decoration, and within is a plain Norman doorway and an old door with medieval hinges.

Inside, there is a C14 chancel arch and squints (of uncertain date).

The front is a C12 tub with arcading, one cylindrical stem and square base, with a later octagonal bowl at the top.

There is a two-decker Jacobean pulpit, with panelled and moulded sides, and a sounding board of the C18.

The medieval roof has exposed arch-braces (once hidden by a plaster barrel vault, as restored in the chancel), the former carved bosses, removed when the roof was restored in 1933, being exhibited in a glass case.