St Aldhelm's Chapel

ST ALDHELM'S CHAPEL

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1120176
Date first listed:
18-Mar-1955
Statutory Address:
ST ALDHELM'S CHAPEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1120176
Date first listed:
18-Mar-1955
Statutory Address 1:
ST ALDHELM'S CHAPEL

Location

Statutory Address:
ST ALDHELM'S CHAPEL

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cranborne
National Grid Reference:
SU 06162 14652

Details

CRANBORNE SU 01 SE BOVERIDGE

7/9 St Aldhelm's Chapel

18.3.55 II

Chapel of Ease, now redundant, dated 1838. Banded brick and flint with rusticated brick quoins and ashlar dressings, slate roof. Plan: combined nave and chancel; north chapel; north tower. In an electric classical style. Round-headed ashlar windows with moulded architraves and stone keystones, some with transoms at the springing line. Modillioned brick cornice. Rusticated west doorway with double, panelled doorway in pilastered surround; 3-light window over. Belfry has 2-light round-headed ashlar windows. Ashlar open cupola with round arches on Roman Doric columns surmounted by a vase finial.

Internal features (RCHM): reset C16 and C17 panelling; wall tablet to Henry Brouncher and family 1825; reset stone cartouche with painted arms; gadrooned stone font with fluted bowl, probably 1838; (Pevsner) Openwork pulpit incorporating C17 work. (RCHM, Dorset, vol. V, p.7, no.2., Newman, J and Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.105.)

Listing NGR: SU0616214652

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
107346
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 7
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 105

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