Pamber Priory Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Our Lady, and St John the Baptist
PAMBER PRIORY PRIORY CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, OUR LADY, AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1092954
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Pamber Priory Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Our Lady, and St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- PAMBER PRIORY PRIORY CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, OUR LADY, AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1092954
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Pamber Priory Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Our Lady, and St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAMBER PRIORY PRIORY CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, OUR LADY, AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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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:
- PAMBER PRIORY PRIORY CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, OUR LADY, AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Monk Sherborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 60891 58156
Details
SU 65 NW MONK SHERBORNE 5/17 26.4.57 Pamber Priory: Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Our Lady, and St John the Baptist (formerly listed as Church of St Mary and St John)
I
C12, C13. Founded by Henry de Port in the time of Henry I as a dependency of St Vigor Carasy, Normandy, and suppressed as an alien priory in 1446, eventually passing to Queens College, Oxford (the present patrons), which carried out restorations in 1843 and 1936. The surviving part of the priory church comprises the Early English choir and the Norman Tower, with fragments embodied in a wall on a line westwards from the south-west corner of the tower. The choir has 4 tall lancets on each side at the east end, a triple lancet east window, and at the western end 2 low pointed arches on rectangular piers (once opening onto side chapels) now walled on the outside to form recesses, 3 containing medieval slabs and one a fine C13 wooden effigy of a cross-legged knight. There are floor slabs, C15 pews; a small area of north wall with fragments of C13 wall painting, and a trefoil-headed piscina. The tower is supported on round arches with stages resting on plain caps, the upper level having on each face 3 arches, the outer containing windows, and a (restoration) open timber frame to support a ceiling and a pyramid roof. An C18 wooden screen separates the tower from the chancel; the other 3 sides to the former crossing are formed by later walls, the west containing a central entrance, the north having doorways in a modem vestry. Externally, the roofing is of tile, with a low-pitched slate roof above the vestry. The chair walls are of flint (partly plastered), with stone dressings, the tower of stone rubble with ashlar features. A stair turret projects from the north-west corner of the crossing, and buttresses occur on the lines of the walls of the former transepts and nave. A C15 font occupies the centre of the floor beneath the tower, and there are several medieval coffin slabs on the east side.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 138734
- 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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