Holy Cross Abbey
HOLY CROSS ABBEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154458
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Cross Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- HOLY CROSS ABBEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154458
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Cross Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLY CROSS ABBEY
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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.
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:
- HOLY CROSS ABBEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ferndown Town
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 05426 00314
Details
HAMPRESTON SU 00 SE STAPEHILL 6/42 Holy Cross Abbey - II Abbey. House of the early C19, monastic buildings of the 1840's, church of 1847-51 by Charles Hansom and later conventual buildings. A monastery for Cistercian nuns (migrating from Revolutionary France), comprising ranges of domestic and conventual buildings to the south of the church. Walls of brickwork in English and Flemish bonds. Steep slate roof to the church, slate roof to the ranges, with tile roof to the later extensions. The church has two parts in parallel (for lay and monastic use), each with a chancel of two bays and nave of five bays, also a (later) aisle to the north of the lay nave. The general style is Early English; lancets and coupled lancets (beneath quatrefoils) and large east windows to the coupled gables, the west end having a large window at the north side, the south side gable being merged with a slender tower, narrowed at the bells stage and terminating in a tall pyramid roof. Although there is a north porch, the main entrance is in the west gable. Inside, there are two arcades, with octagonal columns with moulded caps, with a screen separating the churches. The ranges encompass the earlier house (occupied 1802) and there is a west elevation of two storeys, with a main entrance in the form of a Gothic porch. The cemetery contains a memorial cross of 1844 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, commemorating the abbess Mde.de Chabannes. RCHM
Listing NGR: SU0542600314
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107668
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970)
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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