Listed Building record MDO10094 - Fordington Mill, Mill Street, Dorchester

A nineteenth-century mill incorporating an arch and a panel with the initials ‘WC’, date 1590, and a carving in relief of a seated figure with an achievement of arms, now damaged and illegible. The mill has been altered to housing.

(SY 69979061) East Mills, 130 yards east north east of St George's Church, Fordington, was built in the late 18th century but incorporates a 16th century carved panel inscribed WC 1590. No doubt the panel was originally set on the house of the Churchill family at Fordington, long since demolished. The mill has now been converted into flats. Listed as Fordington Mill . <1> <4>

Mill (Fordington) (SY 700905) probably on or near the site of Estmull mentioned in 1422 Court Rolls and 'Luttshill also East Mill' referred to in 1615 (a). It is probable that 'the fulling mill' and 'the abbot of Bindon's mill mentioned in 1349, refers to the mill later known as 'east mill'. Other early references to a mill or mills here include 'molendinum de Fordinton' in 1199-1230 Pipe Rolls. <3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 114, 130 (Monograph). SDO148.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1 to 25 inch scale map, 1971 (Map). SDO18020.

(SY69979061) The Old Mill (NAT)

<3> Mills, A D, 1977, The place-names of Dorset, Part 1, 358 (Monograph). SWX2852.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset (Dorchester area) (Scheduling record). SDO16416.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453551 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 22 2024 7:25PM