Christchurch Priory and Parish Church
CHRISTCHURCH PRIORY AND PARISH CHURCH, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1110141
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Christchurch Priory and Parish Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRISTCHURCH PRIORY AND PARISH CHURCH, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1110141
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Christchurch Priory and Parish Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRISTCHURCH PRIORY AND PARISH CHURCH, CHURCH 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:
- CHRISTCHURCH PRIORY AND PARISH CHURCH, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Christchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 16031 92531
Details
748/1/14 CHURCH STREET 14-OCT-53 (South side) CHRISTCHURCH PRIORY AND PARISH CHURCH
GV I
A monastery existed here before the Conquest and is recorded in Doomsday Book. The present church was begun by Ralph Flambard in the Cll and C12. The Crypts beneath the Presbytery and Transepts, the Transepts {themselves} (with later windows inserted) but including the fine Norman turret at the north-eastern corner of the North Transept and the Nave are all of this period although the Clerestory is C13. The Aisles were remodelled in C13 and the very large North Porch is also of the C13. The Lady Chapel is early C15 with a Reredos of mid C15 date. The Chancel and its stalls C15. The West Tower was dedicated in early C16. The Choir has a fine, mid C14 Reredos. Numerous monuments and Chantry Chapels including that of Margaet Pole, Countess of Salisbury and her son Cardinal Pole, later Archbishop of Canterbury. Memorial to the poet Shelley at west end.
Nos 10 to 13 (consec) (with its railings and wall), form a group with Nos 14 to 16 (consec) with associated wall and with the Priory Church, the gates to the churchyard, the sundial and boundary walls to churchyard and Garden of Rememberance.
Christchurch Priory forms the focal point of several groups of buildings as well as being the most prominent feature in the distant view of the town.
Listing NGR: SZ1603192529
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101493
- 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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