The Abbey, Ditcheat

The Abbey, Ditcheat

Infobox Historic building


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name=The Abbey
location_town=Ditcheat
location_country=England
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client=John Gunthorpe
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construction_start_date=1473
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The Abbey, Ditcheat is a large house (formerly known as The Priory) at Ditcheat in Somerset, built as the rectory by John Gunthorpe who was rector of Ditcheat and Dean of Wells, in 1473. The house was altered in 1667 for Christopher Coward; and given a new facade and rearranged internally in 1864-68, probably by James Piers St Aubyn for Rev. William Lier. The exterior is now mostly his Victorian neo-Tudor; inside there are reused fragments and some original 15th and 17th work – coffered ceilings and the arch-braced roof of the ‘chapel wing’, but most of the elaborate Gothic work dates from the 1860s.

It is a Grade II* listed building. [cite web | title= The Priory | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=2&id=268306 | accessdate=2006-12-16]

References

Sir N. Pevsner, "The buildings of England: South and West Somerset", 1958, p.150

External links

* http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/text.asp Somerset Historic Environment Register


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