Building record MDO46879 - Pulston Barn, Charminster
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Summary
A barn thought to have been built in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. The building has walls of banded flint and rubble, with later brick additions. The barn is reputed to have been built on the foundations of a chapel of ease known from fifteenth-century documents; no physical evidence has been found to support this.
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Full Description
(SY 66739532). Pulston Barn. "This barn is built on the foundation of Pulston Chapel". "Note. There was formerly A Chapel of Ease, where ye Barn stands in ye meadow". <1>
At Pulston "was formerly a chapel, dedicated to All Saints. In dean Chandler's register it is said to be dependent on the church of Charminster. 1405 Wm. Doke was chaplain, 1411 Wm. Gyffard". <2>
(SY 66729529) The building is still in use. <3>
Pulston Barn (66719530) has walls of banded flint and rubble, with ashlar quoins, subsequently repaired and heightened in brickwork; the roof is tiled. The entrance is in the centre of the N side and a projecting exit bay occurs in the middle of the S side. The structure appears to be of the late C16th or early C17th, but the brick repairs and the roof are of the C19th. Hutchins (II, 546) implies that the building originated as a chapel, but the existing fabric shows nothing to substantiate this. <4>
Sources/Archives (5)
- <1> SDO14738 Index: Historic England. Historic England Archive. Archives Misc P/F 9 p 3 No AO 303.
- <2> SWX1269 Monograph: Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds). 1863. The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2. Vol 2. 546.
- <3> SWX1169 Unpublished document: Swatridge, G C. Various. Field Investigators Comments GCS. F1 GCS 20-JAN-55.
- <4> SDO146 Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1. 70.
- <5> SDO14739 Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 452952.
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred SY 66714 95299 (22m by 12m) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | SY69NE |
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Other Statuses/References
- Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: SY 69 NE 32
- Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 452952
Record last edited
Jul 28 2023 4:28PM
