Listed Building record MDO3534 - St Leonard's Chapel at St Leonard's Farmhouse, East Street, Blandford Forum

Deconsecrated fifteenth century chapel which now forms one of the outbuildings of the farm to which it belongs. Built in flint and courses of stone rubble with some repair in brick, and a modern roof of corrugated iron.

ST. LEONARD'S CHAPEL (89060647), on the E. boundary of the parish, is a half-ruined 15th-century building now used as a barn. The E. wall and the eastern part of the N. and S. walls survive. The masonry is partly of flint and partly of squared rubble alternating with triple courses of knapped flint, with ashlar dressings and quoins in the N.E. and S.E. corners, and with putlog holes outlined in ashlar at regular intervals. The roof is modern. Internally the walls are of coursed clunch with random flint courses. The 'chapel' is notable as the only mediaeval building to survive in the parish. It probably originated as an infirmary. <2> Desecrated and now forming one of the outbuildings of the farm to which it belongs. 15th century. Flint and courses of stone rubble with some repair in brick and a modern roof of corrugated iron. East window of 3 cinquefoil lights in a 2-centred head. One 2-light window vertical tracery remains complete on north side and remains of another on south. North and south. North and south pointed doorways. <3> St Leonard's, Blandford Forum, a hospital, nominally for charitable work with lepers founded in 1282. <3> St leonard's Chapel. <4>

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