Monument record MDO6273 - Manor farm, Wimborne St Giles

Site of an earlier manor house and St Andrew's Chapel. The manor house was extant after 1102, and the chapel was created before the Reformation. It was still standing in 1550 but demolished in 1742. The current farmhouse is a two storey house with attics, originally of the sixteenth century, with later additions of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The timber framed walls are of ashlar, chequered with knapped flint, and of brick, below slate roofs.

(SU 01791358) Manor Farm (NAT)
(SU 01791356) Chapel (NR) (Site of) (NAT). <3>

(21) Manor Farm (01791358), house, of two storeys with attics, has walls of timber framework, of ashlar chequered with knapped flint, and of brick; the roofs are slate-covered. The S. bay of the W. range comprises substantial remains of a well-built early 16-century house. The N. part of the same range is probably of the early 17th century; it was originally of timber frame construction and it retains traces of an open-roofed hall. Early in the 18th century a central chimneystack was built, the hall was chambered over and the walls were refaced in brick. The E. range was added in the 19th century. <2, 4>

The manor of Monkton Up Wimborne passed with the priory of Cranborne to Tewkesbury Abbey in 1102. There was a chapel here before the Reformation, dedicated to Saint Andrew. It was still standing in 1550, but was totally demolished in 1742. <1>

<1> Hutchins, J, 1868, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. Volume 3. 3rd edition, 388-9 (Monograph). SDO11486.

<2> DOE (HHR), 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wimborne and Cranborne RD, 24 (Scheduling record). SDO17339.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 99 (Monograph). SDO129.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213786 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 6 2022 3:47PM