Listed Building record MDO26961 - Powerstock School, Powerstock and Nettlecombe

Primary School. 1848, and early C16 material incorporated. Dressed stone walls with chamfered stone plinth. Plain tile roof, with some fish-scale tiles and tile cresting.

'(5) Village Hall, now used as an annexe to the school, 100 yards W.S.W. of the parish church, has walls of ashlar and tile-covered roofs. It was built in 1848 largely with material from the chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, West Milton. It is a rectangular building with S. porch. The N. wall contains a 16th-century two-light window in a square head with hollow-chamfered jambs and chamfered segmental rear-arch; further W. are the chamfered jambs of a 13th-century doorway with modern head and two 15th-century windows of one cinquefoiled light in a square head. The S. wall has a late 15th-century window of two cinquefoiled lights in a square head with moulded label with head-stops of a king and a bishop ; the 12th-century doorway has a plain round head and moulded imposts. The chapel porch appears to have been rebuilt here in its entirety ; the entrance has a moulded two-centred head and three-quarter jamb-shafts with moulded bses and caps carved with male and female heads, and in the E. wall is a window of one square-headed light with segmental-pointed rear-arch.' (1)

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 184 (Monograph). SDO97.

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