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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.