Outer Gatehouse With Walling For 5 Metres to West

OUTER GATEHOUSE WITH WALLING FOR 5 METRES TO WEST, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1118741
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:
Outer Gatehouse With Walling For 5 Metres to West
Statutory Address:
OUTER GATEHOUSE WITH WALLING FOR 5 METRES TO WEST, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1118741
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:
Outer Gatehouse With Walling For 5 Metres to West
Statutory Address 1:
OUTER GATEHOUSE WITH WALLING FOR 5 METRES TO WEST, CHURCH STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OUTER GATEHOUSE WITH WALLING FOR 5 METRES TO WEST, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Abbotsbury
National Grid Reference:
SY 57696 85208

Details

SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY CHURCH STREET 26.1.56 10/9 Outer Gatehouse with walling for 5 metres to west. GV II*

Outer Monastic Gatehouse. C14 and C15 fragments. Pieces of moulded ashlar and rubble-stone. Outer archway: west jamb and springer of the main segmental arch survive; within this is possibly the springer of the pedestrian entrance arch, re-set. The north wall extends west of this opening for 5 metres, and has C12 and later medieval carved stonework re-set into it. The inner archway of the gate- house is represented by the lower part of its east chamfered jamb. The interval between the two arches is 2.5 metres. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (RCHM, Dorset I, p.7(3).)

Listing NGR: SY5770985193

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105128
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Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 7

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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