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Latitude: 50.5798 / 50°34'47"N
Longitude: -2.0568 / 2°3'24"W
OS Eastings: 396071
OS Northings: 75559
OS Grid: SY960755
Mapcode National: GBR 347.GT3
Mapcode Global: FRA 67LJ.LHX
Plus Code: 9C2VHWHV+W7
Entry Name: St Aldhelm's Chapel
Listing Date: 20 November 1959
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1120256
English Heritage Legacy ID: 109121
ID on this website: 101120256
Location: Dorset, BH19
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Worth Matravers
Built-Up Area: Worth Matravers
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Worth Matravers St Nicholas
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Church building Romanesque architecture Norman architecture
SY 97NE WORTH MATRAVERS SAINT ALDHELM'S HEAD
4/111 Saint Aldhelm's Chapel
20-11-59
- I
Anglican chapel-of-ease. C12. Rubble stone walls, pyramidal stone slate roof
surmounted by a C20 stone cross on a circular base. Moulded corbel table on
north-east wall. Large added buttresses on north-west, north-east and south-
east walls, and at north angle. Original shallow buttress at south angle.
Square plan. Small lancet window at east end of south-east wall. Moulded
string course on this wall. Entrance in north west wall has a round-headed
doorway of 2 simple orders with hoodmould. Internally a central composite
pier supports a quadrupartite vault, with simple chamfered ribs and shallow
wall shafts. Unplastered walls. Stone flagged floor. This has been raised,
but is still below ground level. C19 stone font. Note. Although always
described as a chapel and, according to Hutchins, served by a royal chaplain
in the C13, this building has no specifically ecclesiastical features. The plan
form, orientation, and small amount of natural lighting are unusual for a
church. It has rather the appearance of a vaulted undercroft - possibly for a
projected but uncompleted tower structure. It stands on a platform in the
centre of an earthwork enclosure. RCHM Monument 2 (Dorset, Vol II). Scheduled
Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: SY9607175558
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