Building record MDO45542 - St Monica's Chapel, Spetisbury
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Full Description
The 19th century Roman Catholic chapel of Saint Monica, designed by J. Peniston of Salisbury, was a brick and slated building of cruciform plan, decorated internally with slender plaster shafting
and plaster rib vaulting of about 1830.
The adjoining Saint Monica's Priory was demolished in 1927. The chapel had been secularised by 1954, and was demolished in 1967. <2-3>
<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.
(ST 91250241) Chapel (NAT)
<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 246 (Monograph). SDO149.
'Chapel at St. Monica's Priory, see 19th-century monuments … Notable 19th-century monuments include ... a Chapel decorated internally with slender plaster shafting and plaster rib vaulting of c. 1830; it was designed by J. Peniston of Salisbury (Wilts. Record Office, Peniston papers 451/200); these monuments stand close to the site of the 18th-century Spetisbury House, later St. Monica's Priory. Spetisbury House was demolished in 1927 but a photograph of the S.W. front is preserved in the R.C.H.M. files (see also G. Webb, Burlington Magazine, 47 (1925), pl. I, c); it appears to have been built c. 1750 and shows affinities with the façade of Coupar House, Blandford Forum (8).'
<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 395 (Monograph). SWX1290.
<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209717 (Digital archive). SDO14739.
Sources/Archives (4)
- <1> SWX1540 Map: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Map 6in. 6 inch to 1 mile. 1902.
- <2> SDO149 Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2. 246.
- <3> SWX1290 Monograph: Newman, J, and Pevsner, N. 1972. The Buildings of England: Dorset. 395.
- <4>XY SDO14739 Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 209717. [Mapped feature: #635069 ]
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Location
Grid reference | ST 9125 0241 (point) |
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Map sheet | ST90SW |
Civil Parish | Tarrant Rushton; Dorset |
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Other Statuses/References
- Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: ST 90 SW 106
- Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 209717
Record last edited
Feb 15 2023 4:09PM