Remains of Bindon Abbey
REMAINS OF BINDON ABBEY, BINDON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1120360
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Bindon Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF BINDON ABBEY, BINDON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1120360
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Bindon Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF BINDON ABBEY, BINDON LANE
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:
- REMAINS OF BINDON ABBEY, BINDON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wool
- National Grid Reference:
- SY8539186793
Details
SY 88NE
5/398
20.11.59
WOOL
BINDON LANE
North Side)
Remains of Bindon
Abbey
I
Remains of Cistercian Abbey, founded in 1149 at Little Bindon, West Lulworth (q.v.)
and moved to the present site in 1172. The Abbey was erected in the late C12-mid
C13. Dissolved in 1539, and largely demolished - materials being used in the
construction of "Bindon Abbey" and work to Lulworth Castle.
The Church consisted of a nave with north and south aisles, crossing, transepts with
eastern chapels, and square-ended presbytery. South of this was the cloister, with
domestic buildings of the abbey around it. The foundations of much of the abbey
survive, with the lower parts of the walls. At the west end of the church the walls
stand some 25 ft high, but elsewhere little remains above 8 ft. For full
description see RCHM, Dorset Vol. 11, p404.
The ruins very overgrown and in poor repair.
RCHM Monument 3. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: SY8539186793
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108859
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 404
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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