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Former Boundary Wall to Bruton Abbey

A Grade II Listed Building in Bruton, Somerset

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Latitude: 51.1112 / 51°6'40"N

Longitude: -2.4534 / 2°27'12"W

OS Eastings: 368358

OS Northings: 134749

OS Grid: ST683347

Mapcode National: GBR MX.BB84

Mapcode Global: VH8BG.FBCJ

Plus Code: 9C3V4G6W+FM

Entry Name: Former Boundary Wall to Bruton Abbey

Listing Date: 24 March 1961

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1056393

English Heritage Legacy ID: 261624

ID on this website: 101056393

Location: Bruton, Somerset, BA10

County: Somerset

District: South Somerset

Civil Parish: Bruton

Built-Up Area: Bruton

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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ST6834NW
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BRUTON CP
PLOX (South East side)

Former boundary wall to Bruton Abbey

24.3.61

GV II

Boundary wall. Possibly C15. Local stone rubble with Doulting stone dressings. Wall about 80 metres long and 6 metres
high, divided into 13 bays by offset buttresses; short return at East end, possibly indicating part of the main Abbey
Gateway. Bays 1-6 now incorporated into St Mary's Vicarage (qv) and adapted as follows: bay 1 has modern casment to
left, then pointed arch 'Y"-tracery window in plain surround, with 2 similar windows bay 2, and above these, in both
bays, pairs of blocked quatrefoil panels; bay 3 has large 4-centred carriage arch, now blocked; to bay 4 a 9-panel door
up 3 steps, in 4-centre double-beaded arched surround, with fanlight, and a plain 2-light arched window with matching
surround over, between them a plaque reading "Haec domus et reliquis abbatiae olim de Bruton constructa et ad usum
ecclesiae nuper conversa anno 1822 R C Hoare patrono"; bays 5 and 6 blank, but further blocked segmental arched doorway
to bay 7. There is a blocked window in the East return. In C18 the abbey stables stood against this wall (Couzens P,
Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972).


Listing NGR: ST6835834749

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