The Portman Chapel

BRYANSTON ST 80 NE BRYANSTON OLD BUILDINGS

5/30 The Portman Chapel (Formerly listed as 14-7-55 Old church of St Martin)

GV I

Parish church, now private chapel, 1745 with late C19 vestry. Rendered walls with rusticated stone quoins forming angle pilasters. Slate roofs with pedimented stone gables. Undifferentiated nave and chancel with south vestry. North wall has 2 Palladian windows with stone architraves and glazing bars. The westermost window has part of the architrave missing. Blind Palladian window to east end. South wall has round headed window blocking former priest's door flanked by Ionic columns with an entablature with reeded frieze and paterae. The west doorway is flanked by Ionic columns carrying a segmental pediment-Panelled door. West end has wooden bell-cote with clock under a lead covered cupola.

Internal features (RCHM): Coved ceiling; fielded oak panels to walls; C18 painted plaster and wood reredos; several C18 monuments. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.III, p.46, no.1 Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset 1972, p.120).

Listing NGR: ST8746507055