Borbach Chantry

Borbach Chantry, West Dean, in southeast Wiltshire, England, was built in 1333. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,[1] and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] It was declared redundant on 5 October 1971, and was vested in the trust (at that time the Redundant Churches Fund) on 19 January 1973.[3][4]

Borbach Chantry
LocationWest Dean, Salisbury, England
Coordinates51°02′45″N 1°38′11″W
Built1333
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameBorbach Chantry
Designated23 March 1960[1]
Reference no.1184418
Location of Borbach Chantry in Wiltshire

The chapel was built of flint with limestone dressings, about 1333 by Robert de Borbach as part of a fourteenth-century parish church, but is all that remains. When the church was demolished in 1868 the arcade which connected the chapel to the church was walled up and a new south porch added.[1]

The chapel contains a series of monuments, including those to the parliamentarian John Evelyn who died in 1684 and his family.[2][5] Other memorials are to the Pierrepont family who inherited from him the adjacent manor house, which has since been demolished.[6]

See also

Media related to Borbach Chantry at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. Historic England, "Borbach Chantry (1184418)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 4 July 2013
  2. Borbach Chantry, West Dean, Wiltshire, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 1 April 2011
  3. "No. 45888". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 January 1973. p. 1031.
  4. Diocese of Salisbury: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 2, retrieved 1 April 2011
  5. P.J.D., The Borbach Chantry, West Dean, Salisbury & Winchester Journal, 6 April 1928, page 9
  6. "Church Monument Handbook" (PDF). Minerva Conservation. Retrieved 8 October 2010.


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