Chapter House of Hinton Priory
CHAPTER HOUSE OF HINTON PRIORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1320809
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Chapter House of Hinton Priory
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPTER HOUSE OF HINTON PRIORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1320809
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chapter House of Hinton Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPTER HOUSE OF HINTON PRIORY
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:
- CHAPTER HOUSE OF HINTON PRIORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinton Charterhouse
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 77829 59189
Details
ST 75 NE HINTON CHARTERHOUSE HINTON PRIORY
11/121 Chapter House of Hinton Priory, (formerly listed as the Chapel) 1.2.56
G.V. I
Chapter house with library and dovecote above, of the former Carthusian Hinton Priory. Founded in 1232 as the charterhouse of Locus Dei at Hinton, by Ela Longespee, widow of William Longespee. Rubble, freestone dressings and ashlar gables; stone slate roofs. Consists of central square tower of 2 storeys and attics and gabled on all 4 sides. Projecting east end of 2 storeys, the upper one forming part of the later dovecote. To the north a wing projects towards the site of the former church and includes an east-west corridor, now blocked, and a passage to the church and stairtower. East elevation. 3 bays divided by flat ashlar buttresses which are chamfered on the lower part. The east end is at a lower level and has a small, plain lancet window in a chamfered surround and under a hoodmould with carved head stops. Two tall lancets to the upper parts of the western bays, also in chamfered surrounds and under hoodmoulds; stringcourse at first floor level with corbels projecting below. Chamfered and arched doorway projects at west. West elevation. Flat end buttresses with off-sets. Plain lancet windows, as south elevation, and moulded pointed doorway. North elevation. The main element is a tall, thin central tower which houses a stair and lobby rooms. Gabled on the north side with a large portion of the springer for a vault. Trefoil headed piscina and arched doorway to passage at right. The west side has a lean-to over the passage with a single, plain lancet window at the north end; above is another lancet and a blocked, square window. At the east side is a 2 storey lean-to; blocked corridor with arched east entrance; above is a 2-light window with cusped, 4-centred heads. Interior. Chapterhouse of 3 bays with quadripartite vaults: the western bays have chamfered ribs and the eastern bay has fillet moulded ribs. 2 circular corbels at east, one on a twisted and fluted stem and the other on a fluted stem with stiff-leaf ornament. One moulded, circular corbel on a short fillet moulded shaft remains at the west: remains of a cill band.Trefoil-headed piscina with carved spandrels and scalloped bowls, under a fragmentary hoodmould. Square aumbry on north wall. Hoodmoulds to interior of north and south windows; roll moulded surround to east window. Passage to north: segmental headed doorway to stone newel stair at north west; blocked 4-centre headed doorway. First floor. Library of 2 bays with quadripartite vaults; chamfered ribs on moulded circular corbels with fluted and twisted stems. 2 other small rooms. Dovecote with sawn ashlar nesting boxes. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument - Avon County No. 107. (N. Pevsner, Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958. P.C. Fletcher, Proceedings of Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 96, 1951 and 103, 1958/59. Archaeological Journal, 134, 1977. Mediaeval Archaeology, 2, 1951 and 3, 1959).
Listing NGR: ST7782659195
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32550
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
Medieval Archaeology in Medieval Archaeology, Vol. 2, (1951)
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol. 96, (1951)
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol. 103, (1958)
Medieval Archaeology in Medieval Archaeology, Vol. 3, (1959)
Archaeological Journal in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 134, (1977)
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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