Magdalene Lodge.

MAGDALENE LODGE.

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1323873
Date first listed:
31-Jul-1961
List Entry Name:
Magdalene Lodge.
Statutory Address:
MAGDALENE LODGE.

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1323873
Date first listed:
31-Jul-1961
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Magdalene Lodge.
Statutory Address 1:
MAGDALENE LODGE.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MAGDALENE LODGE.

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
North Wootton
National Grid Reference:
ST 65690 14421

Details

NORTH WOOTTON ST 61 SE - 10/77 Magdalene Lodge. (Formerly listed as Church of St Mary 31.7.61 Magdalene) - II Former Parish Church, now private house. 1883, by Carpenter and Ingelow, incorporating re-used C15 features. Dressed stone walls, with ashlar quoins and dressings. Clay-tile roofs with cresting, gable-ends and moulded kneelers. Cross-fleury on each of the gables. Nave and chancel with north vestry. Single storey, now converted to two internally. Nave, south wall, two partly restored early C15 windows of two trefoiled lights, with a quatrefoil in a two-centred head. West window of nave, 3-light with panel tracery on a 2-centred head. Label, stopped, over. The chancel has a reused C15 single-light window in a square head with a label and head-stops. South doorway into the nave has an archway with a 2-centred head and moulded jambs; door is plank, C20, with C20 lozenge-leaded lights each side and over, C20. South porch is gabled and has side-buttressing with set-offs. In the north wall of the vestry is an early C16 window of 2 four-centred lights with foliated spandrels and moulded reveals. The north pitch of the nave roof has two C20 dormers inserted, with hipped roofs, sash windows. Interior: the roofs of the chancel and nave are compartmented barrel-vaults, C19. C15 wall-plates, partly renewed. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 267(1)).

Listing NGR: ST6569014421

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Legacy System number:
105619
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 267

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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