Description

ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS CERNE ABBEY

11/60 The Abbot's Porch
26.1.56 (formely listed as
Gatehouse at Cerne
Abbey).

GV I

Porch to former abbots hall, built under Abbot Thomas Sam
(1497-1509). Ashlar stone walls, with dressed stone masonry
on south face, and brick facing on upper part of east face.
Slate roof. Three storeys, with moulded plinth, diagonal
buttresses with set-offs, and a rebuilt embattled parapet.
Outer entrance has heavily moulded jambs, a 3-centre arch
with a label and beast-stops. Above this is a 2-storeyed
canted oriel supported on moulded corbelling. 3-lights to
front face, one on each return. Cinquefoiled ogee lights
with mouchettes, rebuilt at the front. Standards at corners
supported an angels. Below this a range 2, 4 and 2 shields-
of-arms set in quatrefoils, and similarly between first and
second floor windows. (For the heraldry, see RCHM). The
second floor windows have cinquefoil lights in 4-centred
heads, with bowtells to the mullions. Porch passage has a
damaged fan-vaulted roof with cones springing from moulded
corbels. Much of the box-work destroyed. North cone very
damp. Attached Porter's Lodging, of 2 storeys with a pent
roof. Ground floor is entered by a doorway from the stair-
turret on the east. West wall has a fireplace, and a window
of one light.

(RCHM Dorset I, p77(2)) -

Listing NGR: ST6653701412

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26268180

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)