Weight: 32 lbs Diameter: 10.5" Bell 1 of 12
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1929
Dove Bell ID: 60898 Tower ID: 23971 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Talbot Village: St Mark
Diocese of Salisbury
Church, 634274
http://www.stmarkschurch-talbotvillage.org.ukOverview
Grid reference: SZ 69 940
The significance of St Mark’s is derived from its architectural and historic interest, recognized by its Grade II listing designation by Historic England (List Entry Number: 1108798, listed in August 1972). The church was the culmination of a philanthropic programme of development by two wealthy sisters, Georgina and Mary Anne Talbot, daughters of Sir George Talbot, undertaken between 1850 - c. 1870s. The church was built in the Early English style, to designs by local architects Evans and Fletcher and has an aisleless four-bay nave with transepts, two-bay chancel, north-east vestry and west tower. The tower has some elements in the Perpendicular style. Substantial additions were made to the church in the later twentieth century, with a new nave to the north and a church hall to the south-west, with a glazed link to the porch.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Footprint of Church buildings: 1135 m²
Exterior Description
St Mark’s Church is located to the northwest of Bournemouth Town Centre and is at the western end of the Talbot Village Conservation Area. On the death of their father in 1850, Georgina and Mary Anne Talbot inherited considerable wealth. The sisters had frequently escaped London by visiting the Bournemouth area and had been moved by the poverty that had resulted from the land enclosures in the early-nineteenth century. They created a model community village in the countryside to the north-west of the town and an area of 150 acres was retained as common land to provide animal grazing for new tenants. Six farms were laid out in varying sizes, along with seven alms-houses, a school and nineteen cottages, each with a well, a pigsty and an acre of land. St Marks Church was the culmination of the project and was completed in 1870 designed by Evans and Fletcher, architects from Wimborne. It is thought that the Talbot sisters were distrustful of the morality of bellringers, so a mechanical carillon of twelve bells was installed in the four-stage tower. The church was built using Swanage and Saltbridge stone, with Doulting stone dressings and a slate roof. The tower is of four stages, with angled buttresses and a stair to the north. The clock faces on the tower are within moulded stone frames and the bell openings have two lights with trefoil plate tracery, flanked by two blind lancets.
Interior
Interior Description
Internally, the church walls are of plastered and painted brick. The moulded chancel arch is on polished marble shafts with carved corbels. There is an arch-braced, collar beam roof, with diagonal boarding and carved spandrels to the braces. In the late-twentieth century extensive alterations and extensions were made to the church. An extension to the north-eastern vestry was added after 1955 and south porch was added in 1970. A large new nave was added, extending the building northwards from the old nave and altering the orientation of the church from west-east to north-south, with the original church now forming a chapel. The new nave was 12 built with cast concrete blocks faced with hammer-dressed rubble and has a steep roof with overhanging eaves, and a full-height end window. In 1992, a substantial parish hall was added to the west of the church, with a glazed link to the south porch. Figure 2: The view south from the new nave, with the three arches linking to the old nave beyond Figure 3: a carved corbel in the nineteenth-century church 13 Figure 3: Trefoil decoration and carving to the nineteenth-century roof The original nave has bench pews of oak from the 1980s. The octagonal pulpit is of Caen stone, with lancet openings on shafts of red Italian marble and dates to c 1870. Beneath the tower is a Roman marble font, which was found in fragments in the Tiber and given to Sir George Talbot. The ornate bowl is supported by a fluted stem, on a square plinth. The ceiling of the tower above the Roman font has large, chamfered beams, with good quality boarding above, matching the rest of the roof. There are some simple wall monuments on the interior of the nineteenth-century church, while the stained glass of the east window is by Lawrence Lee, 1979 and depicts St Mark. The full-height window at the north of the modern nave has a more abstract image, with a yellow cross emerging from a lower area of greens and blues. The original nineteenth century organ survives but is no longer in use, after a modern organ was installed.
Bells
Weight: 193 lbs Diameter: 20" Bell 2 of 12
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1928
Dove Bell ID: 60899 Tower ID: 23971 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 240 lbs Diameter: 22" Bell 3 of 12
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1928
Dove Bell ID: 60900 Tower ID: 23971 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 394 lbs Diameter: 25.5" Bell 4 of 12
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1928
Dove Bell ID: 60901 Tower ID: 23971 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 46 lbs Diameter: 12" Bell 5 of 12
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1929
Dove Bell ID: 60902 Tower ID: 23971 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 63 lbs Diameter: 13.5" Bell 6 of 12
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1929
Dove Bell ID: 60903 Tower ID: 23971 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 79 lbs Diameter: 14.5" Bell 7 of 12
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1929
Dove Bell ID: 60904 Tower ID: 23971 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 91 lbs Diameter: 15" Bell 8 of 12
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1929
Dove Bell ID: 60905 Tower ID: 23971 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 104 lbs Diameter: 16" Bell 9 of 12
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1929
Dove Bell ID: 60906 Tower ID: 23971 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 117 lbs Diameter: 17" Bell 10 of 12
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1929
Dove Bell ID: 60907 Tower ID: 23971 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 141 lbs Diameter: 18" Bell 11 of 12
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1928
Dove Bell ID: 60908 Tower ID: 23971 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Weight: 160 lbs Diameter: 19" Bell 12 of 12
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1928
Dove Bell ID: 60909 Tower ID: 23971 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: SZ 69 940
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
The churchyard has war graves.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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