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St Mary

St Mary

South Perrott

Dorset

C13, with C15 crossing-tower, chancel and south chapel of 1907-13.

Architectural Features

Nave: single window in each wall: 3-light trefoil-cusped with panel tracery above, in a 2-centred head, C15 inserted.

Diagonal buttresses, C15.

West porch, C13, largely rebuilt in C15, (diagonal buttresses).

North and south transepts, C13, with added diagonal buttresses in C15.

Central Tower: 3 stages, C13 crossing-arches, upper part C15 with a plain parapet and gargoyles.

South chapel, rebuilt at same time, on site of a C16 chapel.

Roof of north transept, C15 moulded plates, ridge-beam and joists.

Arched braces from C15 head-corbels.

Fittings: Porch, west door with heavy strap-hinges, C17.

Font: stone, octagonal bowl with short cylindrical stem and moulded base, C13.

Pulpit: wood, octagonal, on an open-legged base.

Carved Signs of the Evangelists, C20.

Monuments: Nave, black and white marble wall tablet, showing form of a table-tomb, to Susannah, widow of Samuel Kitson, 1832.