Iwerne Minster houses [6]
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Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 10 Dec 2020
Seen here from the rear, The Chantry, Old School Lane, is a 17th century house. Built in banded ashlar and flint. There are many original internal features including an oak staircase. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1172228 Iwerne Minster is a small village on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, about 5 miles south of Shaftesbury and the same distance north of Blandford Forum. The village is within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Down Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There is evidence of occupation since prehistoric times. The River Iwerne flows from a spring in the middle of the village. The original Minister is now St Mary's Church and was built by the Normans on the site of an earlier church.