Listed Building record MDO14530 - The Rectory and Glebe House, Trent

Rectory and attached private dwelling, formerly also part of the rectory. A fifteenth-century doorway in the north wall of the building appears to be part of an earlier building, but most of the present building looks much later in date. The west range is seventeenth century, re-fronted in the early eighteenth century, and there is a mid nineteenth-century range at right-angles, facing south. Additions to the east and north were made in the twentieth century. The building has walls of rubble and tiled roofs.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 258-9 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(8) THE RECTORY, 110 yards E.N.E. of the church, is of two storeys with cellars and attics; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are slate-covered. In the N. wall is a 15th-century doorway which appears to be in situ, but otherwise the house seems to be of much later date. The W. wing is probably a 17th-century addition refaced in the 18th century; the main hall is of the 18th century and there is a modern E. extension. The 15th-century doorway has moulded jambs and four-centred arch in a square-head with foliage-spandrels and a label with one head-stop; above it is a 16th or 17th-century three-light window. The W. wing retains 17th-century windows in the N. and S. ends. Inside the building, the staircase window contains a collection of 16th and 17th-century foregin glass made by the Rev. W. H. Turner, 1835-75. The glass is mostly German and Swiss and includes scriptural scenes, saints and much heraldry.'

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