Listed Building record MDO27066 - The Old Vicarage, Sydling St Nicholas

The Vicarage, Sydling St. Nicholas is a two-storeyed structure of coursed flint and ashlar, dated to 1640. The building was restored in 1778 and considerably altered in the C19th. <2>

As described. The name on the main gate is "The Vicarage" but the house is generally known as The Old Vicarage and is no longer used as a vicarage. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 63159938) Vicarage [NAT]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 233 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(5) The Vicarage, 180 yards N.E. of the church, is of two storeys with attics; the walls are of coursed flint and ashlar and the roofs are slate-covered. It was built in 1640 and above the W. doorway is a stone with this date and the initials R.T., V. (for Ralph Taylor, Vicar); it was restored in 1778. The house retains some of its original stone-mullioned windows with labels. In the garden is a stone carved with a figure bound to a post and with part of a figure shooting an arrow at him; it is perhaps the martyrdom of St. Edmund (the top of the head, and presumably the crown, is missing) and may be of 14th-century date.’

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 02-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3.1> Chester, D F, Oral: D F Chester (leaseholder and occupier), The Old Vicarage, 1 High Street, Sydling St Nicholas (Verbal communication). SDO19987.

<4> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 414 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453159 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 25 2024 3:35PM