The Abbey, Charlton Adam

The Abbey
General information
Town or city Charlton Mackrell
Country England
Coordinates 51°3′21″N 2°39′52″W / 51.05583°N 2.66444°W / 51.05583; -2.66444Coordinates: 51°3′21″N 2°39′52″W / 51.05583°N 2.66444°W / 51.05583; -2.66444
Completed late 16th century

The Abbey, Charlton Adam is a Grade I listed building in Somerset, England.[1]

The building was a large rectory house, described as a mansion in 1549. The house takes its name from the fact that it was the site of the Chantry Chapel of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1237, of which some fragments may be incorporated;[2] however the building has never r been an abbey.[3] It is an irregular two and three-storey late 16th-century house probably incorporating pre-Reformation work with Elizabethan paneling.

It underwent extensive restoration and rebuilding in the late 16th century.[3] The house was restored again in 1902 for Claude Neville of Butleigh Court, probably by C.E. Ponting, who also restored Lytes Cary in the same parish. The northern part of the house was damaged by fire in the 1960s and plainly restored.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "The Abbey". Images of England. Retrieved 2008-01-16.
  2. ↑ "The Abbey, Top road (South side), Charlton Adam". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 R. W. Dunning (editor), A. P. Baggs, R. J. E. Bush, Margaret Tomlinson (1974). "Parishes: Charlton Adam". A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 3. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
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