Refectory to West of Chapter House is a Grade I listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1956. A Medieval Refectory.
Refectory to West of Chapter House
- WRENN ID
- vacant-stair-rowan
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1956
- Type
- Refectory
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Refectory to West of Chapter House, Hinton Charterhouse
- OS grid reference
- ST 777 591
- Coordinates
- 51.33128, -2.32027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is the refectory located to the west of the Chapter House, likely part of the Carthusian Hinton Priory, which was founded in 1232. It is constructed of rubble with freestone dressings and has a 20th-century tiled roof with coped raised verges. The rectangular structure has two storeys, with the upper storey featuring a 19th-century king-post roof and accessed by an external stair at the north-east end.
On the north elevation, there is a central blocked four-centre headed doorway alongside an adjoining chamfered arched doorway. The east elevation contains two blocked outer doorways; the right one has a wide four-centred head, while the left one features fragments of a Caernarvon arch, with a central pointed doorway. The south elevation has a stringcourse above the ground floor supported by projecting corbels below. There is a Caernarvon arch doorway on the west side, with a square chamfered window to the left and a two-light window with four-centred heads at the east end. Additionally, there are three later buttresses.
Inside, the undercroft has quadripartite vaults with chamfered ribs. The eastern part is divided by octagonal piers, with the vaults springing from moulded octagonal caps and corbels. The western part is set transversely without piers, and two capitals retain stiff-leaf stems. A fireplace is set in the west wall, featuring a heavy hood on moulded jambs with caps. The building is scheduled as an Ancient Monument, listed as Avon County No. 107.
Local climate
Refectory to West of Chapter House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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