Parish Church of Saint Edward

Heritage listing

Details CORFE CASTLE THE SQUARE (South side ) SY 96 82 7/125 Parish Church of Saint Edward 20.11.59 GV II* Anglican Parish Church. Tower C15, rest rebuilt 1860, architect T H Wyatt, incorporating some medieval fragments. Rubble stone walls with ashlar dressings, slate roofs with coped gables. Separate pitched roofs to nave and aisles. Nave, north and south aisles of 4 bays, with clerestory. Chancel with north and south aisles of 2 bays, and projecting sanctuary; west tower, south porch. Tower, of 3 stages, has diagonal buttresses and moulded plinth. Semi-octagonal stair turret on north. Battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles. Moulded string course below this, with carved gargoyles. 2-light square-headed belfry windows. Main west window of 3 lights, with intersecting tracery. West door has straight-sided arch in square frame with shields in spandrels flanked by canopied niches on carved head corbels. In south aisle wall, two 2-light windows with plate tracery and a 3-light window with geometrical tracery. In south chancel aisle wall a shouldered arched doorway, 2 lancets and a 3-light window with geometrical tracery. 2-light square headed windows in north and south walls of sanctuary. East window with intersecting tracery and battlemented transome. In north aisle, blocked doorway with 2-light window above, 2 lancets and 3-light window with geometrical tracery. North porch has pointed arched doorway with shafts of C12 character. Internally, chancel has arch-braced collar beam roof. Chancel arcades in C13 style, with clustered Purbeck marble columns. In north wall, re-set lancet, and C14 doorway below it (these now internal), and blocked C13 doorway in south wall. Arch-braced scissor roof to nave. Nave arcades with circular columns and stiff-leaf caps - one of these ea

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.