The Portman Chapel
THE PORTMAN CHAPEL, BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1110183
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Portman Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- THE PORTMAN CHAPEL, BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1110183
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Portman Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PORTMAN CHAPEL, BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS
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:
- THE PORTMAN CHAPEL, BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bryanston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87466 07054
Details
BRYANSTON ST 80 NE BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS
5/30 The Portman Chapel (Formerly listed as 14-7-55 Old church of St Martin)
GV I
Parish church, now private chapel, 1745 with late C19 vestry. Rendered walls with rusticated stone quoins forming angle pilasters. Slate roofs with pedimented stone gables. Undifferentiated nave and chancel with south vestry. North wall has 2 Palladian windows with stone architraves and glazing bars. The westermost window has part of the architrave missing. Blind Palladian window to east end. South wall has round headed window blocking former priest's door flanked by Ionic columns with an entablature with reeded frieze and paterae. The west doorway is flanked by Ionic columns carrying a segmental pediment-Panelled door. West end has wooden bell-cote with clock under a lead covered cupola.
Internal features (RCHM): Coved ceiling; fielded oak panels to walls; C18 painted plaster and wood reredos; several C18 monuments. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.III, p.46, no.1 Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset 1972, p.120).
Listing NGR: ST8746507055
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103304
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 46
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 120
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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