St Mary Magdalene, Batcombe
St Mary Magdalene, Batcombe
St Mary Magdalene (listed as the Parish Church of St Mary) is a Grade I church at Batcombe, Dorset, in the Diocese of Salisbury.
- Location
- Batcombe, Dorset
- Country
- England
- County
- Dorset
- City / town
- Batcombe
- Address
- Stile Way, Batcombe, Dorset, DT2 7BG
- Postcode
- DT2 7BG
- Built
- C15 nave and west tower; chancel rebuilt 1864; north porch added 1864
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Mary
- Diocese
- Salisbury
- Parish
- Batcombe
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular
- Materials
- Rubble-stone and flint walls with freestone dressings; clay-tile roofs
- Grid reference
- ST 618 038
- Opening hours
- Always open.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records a fifteenth-century nave and west tower, with the chancel rebuilt and a north porch added in 1864. The walls are rubble-stone and flint with freestone dressings, under clay-tile roofs. The three-stage west tower has diagonal buttresses, an embattled parapet with pinnacles and gargoyles, and the principal west doorway. Nave windows are fifteenth-century, with three cinquefoiled ogee lights and vertical tracery. The tower arch is moulded; the nave roof has collar-beam traces forming four-centred arches. A late-fifteenth-century screen stands under the chancel arch. The font is a roughly circular stone bowl with cable ornament. The church stands apart at the head of the Wriggle Valley; several churchyard monuments are separately listed Grade II. The listing cites RCHM Dorset I.