This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY CHURCH STREET 26.1.56 10/9 Outer Gatehouse with walling for 5 metres to west.
GV II*
Outer Monastic Gatehouse. C14 and C15 fragments. Pieces of moulded ashlar and rubble-stone. Outer archway: west jamb and springer of the main segmental arch survive; within this is possibly the springer of the pedestrian entrance arch, re-set. The north wall extends west of this opening for 5 metres, and has C12 and later medieval carved stonework re-set into it. The inner archway of the gate- house is represented by the lower part of its east chamfered jamb. The interval between the two arches is 2.5 metres.
Scheduled Ancient Monument. (RCHM, Dorset I, p.7(3).)
Listing NGR: SY5770985193
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0137 IOE Records taken by Derek Beauchamp; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Derek Beauchamp. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Beauchamp, Derek
Rights Holder: Beauchamp, Derek
Ashlar, Rubble, Stone, Medieval Abbey, Religious Ritual And Funerary, Religious House, Wall, Monument (By Form), Barrier, Benedictine Monastery, Monastery, Gatehouse, Unassigned, Building
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