Listed Building record MDO14512 - The Chantry, Trent

Chantry-house built in the late 15th or early 16th century, and now a private residence. The two-storey building has walls of rubble and the roof is covered with slate.

[ST58981853] THE CHANTRY: This house is of two storeys with attics; the walls are of rubble and the roofs slated. It was built late in the 15thc or early in the 16thc, perhaps for a chantry priest or priests of the church. The building is rectangular, gabled on N.E. and S.W., with original chimney-stacks on N.E., S.W., and S.E.

The building has some original features internally and externally.

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A chantry priest's house, with 15thc. windows. (1-4)

The chantry was founded c.1440 by John FRANK of TRENT, and the chapel on the N. side of TRENT church probably represents this building, which before its use as a chantry chapel was perhaps a N. transept or Lady Chapel. The chapel was appropriated to the use of the Manor House in 1552. In 1549 the "mansion of the Chantry" occupied by the late incumbent, was granted to Wm. FONTAYNE and Rich. MAYNE for #6. (a). (1-4)

Description T1 is correct. The stone built chantry-house is well preserved and apart from the roof it shows no trace of modernisation. The majority of the windows are of ecclesiastical type with some slight restoration. The doorways are ashlar framed. The building is used as a private residence.

The house is known as THE CHANTRY. (5)

Full description of the Chantry, with plans and elevations. Mentioned. (6)

(See also St Andrew's Church, ST 51 NE 42) (7)

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1913, Proceedings of The Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, xxxvi (Serial). SDO17781.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1929, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1928, 22 (Serial). SDO32.

<3> 1996, Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 22, 22 (Serial). SDO17477.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 258 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(6) THE CHANTRY (Plate 38), house on the E. side of the churchyard, is of two storeys with attics; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are slate-covered. It was built late in the 15th or early in the 16th century perhaps for a chantry-priest or priests of the church. It is a small rectangular structure gabled to the N.E. and S.W. and with original chimney-stacks on the N.E., S.W. and S.E. The S.E. side has a doorway with moulded jambs, two-centred arch and square label; further N.E. is a similar but reset doorway with the jambs on the inner face of the wall; the two lower windows are each of two cinquefoiled and transomed lights with a label; there are two similar windows on the upper floor and a third of two plain lights. In the S.W. and N.E. ends are quatrefoiled panels enclosing blank shields; in the N.E. end also is a window of trefoiled light. The N.W. side has a doorway with moulded jambs and two-centred head and three two-light transomed windows similar to those on the S.E. side. Inside the building, the N.E. room has original moulded ceiling-beams and an original fireplace; this has moulded jambs and square head, above which are three quatrefoiled panels enclosing shields and a rosette or patera'.

<5> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 06-JUL-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<6> Mrs Stamp, 1955, Oral Mrs Stamp 6.7.55 Tenant (Verbal communication). SDO17782.

<7> Pantin, W A, 1959, Chantry Priests' Houses and other Medieval Lodgings; Medieval Archaeology 3, 237-40 (Article in serial). SDO17257.

<8> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 428 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 196024 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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