Former Boundary Wall to Bruton Abbey
FORMER BOUNDARY WALL TO BRUTON ABBEY, PLOX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056393
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Former Boundary Wall to Bruton Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BOUNDARY WALL TO BRUTON ABBEY, PLOX
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056393
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Former Boundary Wall to Bruton Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BOUNDARY WALL TO BRUTON ABBEY, PLOX
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BOUNDARY WALL TO BRUTON ABBEY, PLOX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bruton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6835834749
Details
ST6834NW
8/151
BRUTON CP
PLOX (South East side)
Former boundary wall to Bruton Abbey
24.3.61
GV II
Boundary wall. Possibly C15. Local stone rubble with Doulting stone dressings. Wall about 80 metres long and 6 metres
high, divided into 13 bays by offset buttresses; short return at East end, possibly indicating part of the main Abbey
Gateway. Bays 1-6 now incorporated into St Mary's Vicarage (qv) and adapted as follows: bay 1 has modern casment to
left, then pointed arch 'Y"-tracery window in plain surround, with 2 similar windows bay 2, and above these, in both
bays, pairs of blocked quatrefoil panels; bay 3 has large 4-centred carriage arch, now blocked; to bay 4 a 9-panel door
up 3 steps, in 4-centre double-beaded arched surround, with fanlight, and a plain 2-light arched window with matching
surround over, between them a plaque reading "Haec domus et reliquis abbatiae olim de Bruton constructa et ad usum
ecclesiae nuper conversa anno 1822 R C Hoare patrono"; bays 5 and 6 blank, but further blocked segmental arched doorway
to bay 7. There is a blocked window in the East return. In C18 the abbey stables stood against this wall (Couzens P,
Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972).
Listing NGR: ST6835834749
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261624
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, (1972)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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