CHAPEL AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL

CHAPEL AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1324313
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1950
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD

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Date:: 2005-08-26
Reference:: IOE01/14716/24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1324313
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1950
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD

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District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sherborne
National Grid Reference:: ST 63748 16519

Details

ABBEY ROAD 1. 1625 (South East Side) Chapel at Sherborne School ST 6316 1/5 28.11.50. I GV 2. 2-storey range across the north end of the Library range. C15 hall, probably the hall of the Abbot's lodging [now incorporated into the modern chapel]; rebuilt late C12 or early C13 undercroft. Hall roof of C15 style. 2 bays added in 1855 by R C Carpenter and Benjamin Ingelow to give a north aisle. First War Memorial extension of 1922 at the west end by Reginald Blomfield. Exterior to north aisle [work of R H Carpenter and Benjamin Ingelow] has 2-centred windows with tracery above; giant buttresses; cloister openings below; the latter continue northwards from west corner to form a west cloister walk with similar openings. First War Memorial built above southernmost bay of west cloister walk. 1 window faces east, in north facing gable, 2 windows. South-west end of Chapel faces on to Abbey Road; lofty pointed window of 5-lights with dripmould and tracery. Graded I only on account of its containing medieval remains of the Abbey of Sherborne.

The following buildings of Sherborne School surround the greens immediately to the north of the Abbey Church of St Mary and form a group with themselves and with the Abbey Church of St Mary.

Listing NGR: ST6375116518

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 7 December 2016.

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Legacy System number:: 103828
Legacy System:: LBS

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War Memorials Register, accessed 07/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/65814

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.