Listed Building: OUTER GATEHOUSE WITH WALLING FOR 5 METRES TO WEST (105128)

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Grade II*
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 442/10/9
Date assigned 26 January 1956
Date last amended

Description

SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY CHURCH STREET 26.1.56 10/9 Outer Gatehouse with walling for 5 metres to west. GV II* Outer Monastic Gatehouse. C14 and C15 fragments. Pieces of moulded ashlar and rubble-stone. Outer archway: west jamb and springer of the main segmental arch survive; within this is possibly the springer of the pedestrian entrance arch, re-set. The north wall extends west of this opening for 5 metres, and has C12 and later medieval carved stonework re-set into it. The inner archway of the gate- house is represented by the lower part of its east chamfered jamb. The interval between the two arches is 2.5 metres. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (RCHM, Dorset I, p.7(3).) Listing NGR: SY5770985193

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Location

Grid reference SY 5770 8519 (point)
Civil Parish Abbotsbury; Dorset
District (historic) West Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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