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''THE RUINED ABBEY'' AT THE DELL TO NORTH OF GOODWOOD HOUSE WITH ATTACHED TUNNEL SYSTEM INCLUDING UNDERGROUND CHAMBER TO NORTH-EAST AND NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN TUNNEL ENTRANCES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389304
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-2000
List Entry Name:: ''THE RUINED ABBEY'' AT THE DELL TO NORTH OF GOODWOOD HOUSE WITH ATTACHED TUNNEL SYSTEM INCLUDING UNDERGROUND CHAMBER TO NORTH-EAST AND NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN TUNNEL ENTRANCES
Statutory Address:: ''THE RUINED ABBEY'' AT THE DELL TO NORTH OF GOODWOOD HOUSE WITH ATTACHED TUNNEL SYSTEM INCLUDING UNDERGROUND CHAMBER TO NORTH-EAST AND NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN TUNNEL ENTRANCES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389304
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-2000
List Entry Name:: ''THE RUINED ABBEY'' AT THE DELL TO NORTH OF GOODWOOD HOUSE WITH ATTACHED TUNNEL SYSTEM INCLUDING UNDERGROUND CHAMBER TO NORTH-EAST AND NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN TUNNEL ENTRANCES
Statutory Address 1:: ''THE RUINED ABBEY'' AT THE DELL TO NORTH OF GOODWOOD HOUSE WITH ATTACHED TUNNEL SYSTEM INCLUDING UNDERGROUND CHAMBER TO NORTH-EAST AND NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN TUNNEL ENTRANCES

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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Statutory Address:: ''THE RUINED ABBEY'' AT THE DELL TO NORTH OF GOODWOOD HOUSE WITH ATTACHED TUNNEL SYSTEM INCLUDING UNDERGROUND CHAMBER TO NORTH-EAST AND NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN TUNNEL ENTRANCES

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

County:: West Sussex
District:: Chichester (District Authority)
Parish:: Westhampnett
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: SU 88761 09101

Details

SU 80 NE 1080/10/10041 09-OCT-00

WESTHAMPNETT GOODWOOD PARK ''The Ruined Abbey'' at the Dell to north of Goodwood House, with attached tunnel system including underground chamber to north-east and northern and southern tunnel entrances

GV II

Garden feature with attached tunnel system and underground chamber. Circa 1730, for the second Duke of Richmond. Coursed stone, brick and flint, partly ivy-covered at time of inspection (03.02.00). At the Dell, the ''Ruined Abbey'' comprises a round-arched tunnel entrance flanked by narrow stone piers with niches surmounted by re-used medieval crocketed canopies (part-collapsed). The tunnel is stone-lined, but blocked. It procedes eastwards to link with a north-south tunnel which has an underground circular chamber near its northern end and northern and southern entrances. Both entrances are round-arched; the tunnels are curving and mostly brick-lined. The southern entrance is set in a flint retaining wall; the tunnel is lined with flint, becoming brick after approx. 11 metres and with a partly-collapsed flint cell on its eastern side after approx 18 metres. The northern entrance is set in a retaining wall of red-brown brick in English bond and has brick plinths and imposts and a late-C20 iron gate; stone steps lead up at either side. The underground chamber is brick-lined with a blocked central circular roof-light; nine arched stone niches to walls; and a further bricked-up entrance.

The ''Ruined Abbey'' is one of several structures set around the bowl of a man-made amphitheatre and all of which were constructed for the second Duke of Richmond as part of his renowned menagerie. Birds and animals were housed and buried in the tunnel system and associated chambers.

T J McCann, 'Much troubled with very rude company...'. The 2nd Duke of Richmond?s Menagerie at Goodwood?, Sussex Archaeological Collections, 132 (1994), pp. 143-9.

Listing NGR: SU8876109101

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Legacy System:: LBS

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McCann, T J, 'Sussex Archaeological Collections' in Much Troubled With Very Rude Company... The 2nd Duke of Richmond's Menagerie at Goodwood, , Vol. 132, (1994), 143-9

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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.