Description

BRYANSTON
ST 80 NE BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS

5/30 The Portman Chapel
(Formerly listed as
14-7-55 Old church of St Martin)

GV I

Parish church, now private chapel, 1745 with late C19 vestry. Rendered walls with
rusticated stone quoins forming angle pilasters. Slate roofs with pedimented stone
gables. Undifferentiated nave and chancel with south vestry. North wall has 2 Palladian
windows with stone architraves and glazing bars. The westermost window has part of the
architrave missing. Blind Palladian window to east end. South wall has round headed
window blocking former priest's door flanked by Ionic columns with an entablature with
reeded frieze and paterae. The west doorway is flanked by Ionic columns carrying a
segmental pediment-Panelled door. West end has wooden bell-cote with clock under a
lead covered cupola.

Internal features (RCHM): Coved ceiling; fielded oak panels to walls; C18 painted
plaster and wood reredos; several C18 monuments. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.III, p.46, no.1
Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset 1972, p.120).

Listing NGR: ST8746507055

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531175

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)