The Chantry and Attached Walls
THE CHANTRY AND ATTACHED WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1303876
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Chantry and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHANTRY AND ATTACHED WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1303876
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Chantry and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHANTRY AND ATTACHED WALLS
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:
- THE CHANTRY AND ATTACHED WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Trent
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58994 18538
Details
TRENT ST 5818-5918 - The Chantry and attached 18/157 walls 11.7.51 GV I
Former Chantry-house, now private residence. Mid C15, with slight C19 and C20 alterations. Rubble-stone walls and dressed-stone quoins. Clay-tile roof with gable ends and stone gable-copings. Short octagonal stone stacks with cornices at the gable ends. Original stack embrasure at middle of south-east wall, with a rebuilt octagonal stone stack over. Small single- depth rectangular structure. 2½ storeys. 3 windows. S.E. Wall: two lower windows are each of two cinquefoiled and transomed lights, returned labels with square stops. There are two similar windows on the upper floor and a third of 2 plain lights. Iron casements with fixed rectangular- leaded lights. Doorway immediately south of stack embrasure has moulded jambs, pointed arch and a square label, plank-and-muntin door, studded, c. C19. The S.W. and N.W. ends have quatrefoiled panels enclosing blank shields. In the N.E. end is a window of one trefoiled light. The N.W. wall has 3 two-light transomed windows similar to those on the S.E. side. Doorway at centre with moulded jambs and pointed-arch head. Interior: the north-east room has moulded ceiling-beams, and an original fireplace. The fireplace has moulded stone jambs and a square head. The lintel-block has 3 large quatrefoiled panels, the outer two enclosing shields, the central one enclosing a rosette. The chantry was endowed by John Franks, died 1437, Master of the Rolls, and native of Trent. The attached walls, are of rubble-stone with ashlar stone copings, running for 14 metres north-east of the chantry, rounded corner and 9 metres with a gateway, rounded corner and running for 25 metres into churchyard wall. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 258(6). A Sandison, Trent in Dorset (1969), pp 14-16).
Listing NGR: ST5899018532
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105698
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 258
Sandison, A, Trent in Dorset, (1969), 14-16
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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