Tithe Barn, Dunster

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Tithe Barn

Somerset


Dunster Tithe Barn
Type: Tithe barn
Location
Location: 51.18417 -3.44611
Village: Dunster
History
Built 14th century
Tithe barn
Information
Owned by: Crown Estate
Website: Dunster Tithe Barn

The Tithe Barn, also known as the Prior Barn, is a 14th-century tithe barn in Dunster, in Somerset once belonging to Dunster Priory, a Benedictine cell belonging to Bath Abbey, which dominated the village until the Reformation.

The barn has a cruciform plan. The east front has central double doors in heavy oak with a chamfered frame.[1] It is a grade II listed building.[2]

The barn has been much altered since the 14th century and only a limited amount of the original features survive. In the "Valor Ecclesiasticus" of 1535 the net annual income of the Dunster Tithe Barn is recorded as being £37.4.8d, of which £6.13s7d was passed on to the priory in Bath.[3]

The Somerset Buildings Preservation Trust (SBPT) has co-ordinated a £550,000[4] renovation project on behalf of the Dunster Tithe Barn Community Hall Trust (DTBCHT), into a multi-purpose community hall under a 99-year lease at a pepper-corn rent, by the Crown Estate Commissioners who own the building. Funding has been obtained from the Heritage Lottery Fund and others to support the work.[5]

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