Monument record MDO3 - Tithe barn of Abbotsbury Abbey, Mill Farm, Church Street, Abbotsbury

Tithe barn of St Peter's Abbey built around AD 1400. The barn is constructed from ashlar, weathered to dressed stone. A thatch roof covers the 12 bays of the south west end, the remaining 11 bays have been un-roofed since the 17th century.

Additional Reference. <2> Tithe Barn of the Monastery, 272 ft long and 31 ft wide is now in two parts but was originally one building. The north porch has a turret with a winding staircase; there is a fine western gable and a imposing line of buttresses on its south side. 15th century. <3> Tithe Barn. The largest barn in England, 272 feet in length. E portion roofless. Rubble and ashlar with thatched roof. Elaborate entrance bay on N with angle turret. Elaborate W gable with triangular niched finial and buttresses carried up s square pinnacles with embattled tops as St Catherine's Chapel. The trussed rafter roof is probably 17th century. <4> The Great Barn: A large buttressed barn of 23 bays, with 2 projecting entrances on the south face, and probably 2 porches, one of which survives, on the north face. Probably built circa 1400. The south west part, still in use, is now thatched; the north east part is ruined. The existing roof of the barn is probably 17th century. <5> Description above correct. See plan and ground photograph. The south west part is now used as a farm outbuilding whilst the north east portion is in ruins. <7> Photograph. <8>

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