HER 2543 DESCRIPTION:- A C19 cottage (no.88) incorporates two C12 doorways and other details which appear to have been part of a church and which are said to have come from an orchard at the east end of Sherborne. The doorway facing the street has a carved tympanum, attached shafts and chevron and zigzag ornament. {Source Work 862.} Cottage no.88 incorporates remains as described above. The second doorway is set into the north wall of the cottage and there are circular ashlar windows in the east and west walls. {Source Work 862.} Listed Building Description: SHERBORNE SHERBORNE VILLAGE SP 1714 9/227 No 88 26.1.61 II Detached cottage. C19, with two reused C12 doorways. Coursed squared and dressed limestone. Stone slate roof, ashlar stacks, two restored C20. Rectangular main body with later extension to right. Symmetrical 1½ storey, 2-windowed facade. Two-light dormers from eaves to first floor within flat-chamfered surrounds. Two 3-light stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods to ground floor, either side of C19 plank door within C12 round-headed surround of two orders with eroded chevron motif to inner arch and zig-zag motif to outer arch. Engaged columns either side with eroded but decorated capitals. Tympanum with incised cross at centre and incised 4-petal rosettes either side. Plank door at rear with plain C12 tympanum at rear. Small lancet above with pointed hood. Quatrefoils in gable ends with semi-circular hoods. Single-storey extensions to right with 2-light casement. Flat coping at gable ends. Gable-end stacks. C12 doorways reputed to come from chapel which once stood in the present garden of Stones Farm (q.v.). Interior not inspected. (Property of the National Trust).Listing NGR: SP1774714280 {Source Work 2388.} 2019 - This monument was previously recorded within the Historic England National Record of the Historic Environment. That record, formerly held within the AMIE database, is quoted below: “The Norman parish church of Sherborne possibly stood until the 14th century at the east end of the village (SP 1714). A 19th century cottage (No 88) incorporates two 12th century doorways and other details which appear to have been part of a church and which are said to have come from an orchard at the east end of Sherborne. The doorway facing the street has a carved tympanum, attached shafts, and chevron and zig-zag ornament. The existence of a chapel to St John, extant in the 13th century and recorded in a grant of 1549 as the 'west end chapel' implies that the east end of the village was served by this earlier church. (1-2) Cottage No 88 is at SP 17741427 and incorporates the remains above described. The second doorway is set into the north wall of the cottage and there are circular ashlar windows in the east and west walls. Rebuilt 12th century Church Doorway from SW. Mr Partlow (a) understood that the remains of the church were from the orchard at SP 17671435. There is no trace of a former building in the orchard, and no other indication of the former existence of a church there. (3) II No. 88 *C.19. Cotswold style cottage built round a genuine Norman doorway with chevrons, etc. (4)” {Source Work 4249.} |