Abbey Tithe Barn, Including Attached Wall to East
ABBEY TITHE BARN, INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL TO EAST, CHILKWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1057953
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Tithe Barn, Including Attached Wall to East
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY TITHE BARN, INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL TO EAST, CHILKWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1057953
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Tithe Barn, Including Attached Wall to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY TITHE BARN, INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL TO EAST, CHILKWELL STREET
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:
- ABBEY TITHE BARN, INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL TO EAST, CHILKWELL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Glastonbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 50361 38551
Details
CHILKWELL STREET 1. 1133 (South West Side) 21.6.50. Abbey Tithe Barn, including attached wall to east ST 5038 8/3 I 2. To south-east of the Abbey grounds, on the corner of Bere Lane and Chilkwell Street. Relatively small in scale (approx 100 ft long) but of excellent architectural quality. C14. Ashlar. Unaisled, cruciform building of 7 bays. 4 gables with traceried lights. Old tiled roofs with coped gable-ends supported by carved heads. Saddle- stones with carved standing figures and finials. Main gable-ends have central buttresses and triangular openings with hoodmoulds and cusped tracery. 2-light rectangular openings over depressed chamfered arches to porches. Animals on side buttresses of porches. Excellent carved roundels of the 4 Evangelist symbols to gable-ends. The walls of the barn have slit openings, with wide splays inside, divided by buttresses with multiple set-offs. 2-tier cruck construction with arched braces in roof. Scheduled Ancient Monument. High crenellated wall running east attached to north- east corner of the barn. Rubble with a band, and crenellated top of ashlar blocks.
Listing NGR: ST5036638554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265895
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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