Chapel of Saint Catherine
CHAPEL OF SAINT CATHERINE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1304728
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of Saint Catherine
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF SAINT CATHERINE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1304728
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of Saint Catherine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF SAINT CATHERINE
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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:
- CHAPEL OF SAINT CATHERINE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton Abbas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST8012102338
Details
ST 80 SW
3/144
14-7-55
MILTON ABBAS
MILTON ABBEY
Chapel of Saint Catherine
I
Consecrated ecclesiastical building. Originally a chapel of Milton Abbey.
Late C12 - west wall of nave rebuilt and chancel walls raised in C18.
Restored 1901 after a period of secular use. Flint and rubble stone walls
with ashlar dressings. Stone slate roofs with coped gables - north slopes
renewed with artificial stone slates, c1980. Nave and chancel. South wall
of nave has a C12 doorway with segmental inner arch and round-headed outer
arch with roll moulding; shafts with foliated caps. Remains of inscription
on door jamb granting 120 days' indulgence. West of this a small C12
round-arched window. East of the door a C15 2-light square-headed window
with ogee lights. 3 buttresses to this wall. East window, C18, in C15 style,
of 3 lights. North wall of nave has C12 segmental-arched doorway. 2 windows
matching those in south wall, 3 buttresses. West wall, C18, of ashlar stone
and knapped flint, has a C19 lancet window. Interior. Walls plastered.
Roofs, c1901, of tie-beam form. Chancel paved with old tiles, including
some medieval decorative tiles - from the Abbey. Chancel arch, pointed, of
2 orders with roll moulding. Triple shafts with scalloped caps. Nave paved
with old tiles, including some decorative medieval tiles at west end. C15
carved bracket in east wall of chancel. Small niche by north door. Altar
table appears C17. Good example of a largely unaltered small Norman church.
RCHM. Monument 3. (Dorset. Vol.III)
Listing NGR: ST8012102338
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103560
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 12 Dorset,
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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