# Borbach Chantry

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| name = Borbach Chantry
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| locmapin = Wiltshire
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| location = [West Dean](/source/West_Dean%2C_Wiltshire), Wiltshire, England
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| built = 1333
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| designation1 = Grade I listed building
| designation1_offname = Borbach Chantry
| designation1_date = 23 March 1960<ref name="IoE"/>
| designation1_number = 1184418
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'''Borbach Chantry''', [West Dean](/source/West_Dean%2C_Wiltshire), in south-east Wiltshire, England, was built in 1333. It is recorded in the [National Heritage List for England](/source/National_Heritage_List_for_England) as a Grade&nbsp;I [listed building](/source/Listed_building),<ref name="IoE">{{NHLE |num= 1184418|desc= Borbach Chantry|access-date= 4 July 2013|mode=cs2}}</ref> and is now a [redundant church](/source/redundant_church) in the care of the [Churches Conservation Trust](/source/Churches_Conservation_Trust).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Borbach Chantry, West Dean, Wiltshire |url=https://www.visitchurches.org.uk/visit/church-listing/borbach-chantry-west-dean.html |access-date=2023-06-30 |website=Churches Conservation Trust}}</ref>  It was declared redundant on 5&nbsp;October 1971, and was [vested](/source/vesting) in the trust (at that time the Redundant Churches Fund) on 19&nbsp;January 1973.<ref>{{London Gazette
| issue = 45888
| date = 23 January 1973
| page = 1031
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}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | year = 2011| title = Diocese of Salisbury: All Schemes| series = Church Commissioners/Statistics| publisher = [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England)| page = 2| format = PDF | url = http://www.churchofengland.org/media/811097/salisbury%20-%20all%20schemes.pdf| access-date =1 April 2011}}</ref>

The chapel was built of [flint](/source/flint) with [limestone](/source/limestone) dressings, about 1333 by Robert de Borbach in the south aisle of a 14th-century parish church, but is all that remains of the church. When the rest was demolished in 1868 the [arcade](/source/Arcade_(architecture)) which connected the chapel to the church was walled up, with a central window taken from the demolished chancel, and a south porch was added.<ref name="IoE"/><ref name="Orbach">{{Cite book |last1=Orbach |first1=Julian |title=Wiltshire |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |last3=Cherry |first3=Bridget |publisher=[Yale University Press](/source/Yale_University_Press) |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-300-25120-3 |series=The Buildings Of England |location=New Haven, US and London |page=772 |oclc=1201298091 |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner |author-link3=Bridget Cherry}}</ref> The 14th-century trussed rafters of the roof were retained.<ref name="IoE" />

The work was carried out by the Evelyn family in order to preserve their monuments. At the east end, behind 17th-century iron railings, is a full-height monument to Robert Pierrepoint (died 1669),<ref name="Orbach" /> whose family married into the Evelyns.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Howse |first=Christopher |date=2021-06-05 |title=Sacred Mysteries: A baroque vision in the Wiltshire countryside |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/06/05/sacred-mysteries-baroque-vision-wiltshire-countryside/ |access-date=2023-06-30 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Julian Orbach calls the black, white and gold monument "intensely dramatic" and states that it is attributed to [John Bushnell](/source/John_Bushnell).<ref name="Orbach" />

Monuments on the north wall include the kneeling figures of John Evelyn (died 1627) and his wife, under a [Baroque](/source/Baroque) double [pediment](/source/pediment), their eleven children kneeling below them. The parliamentarian [John Evelyn](/source/John_Evelyn_(Parliamentarian)) (died 1685) has a bust in a black niche, under a pediment bearing an urn and two female figures, described as "good" by Orbach.<ref name="Orbach" /><ref>P.J.D., The Borbach Chantry, West Dean. ''Salisbury & Winchester Journal'', 6 April 1928, page 9</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Church Monument Handbook|url=http://www.minervaconservation.com/articles/monument_handbook.pdf|publisher=Minerva Conservation|access-date=8 October 2010}}</ref>thumb|upright|Pierrepoint memorial
thumb|upright|John Evelyn (d.1627), his wife and eleven children

==See also==
* [List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Southwest England](/source/List_of_churches_preserved_by_the_Churches_Conservation_Trust_in_Southwest_England)

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Category:14th-century church buildings in England
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1333
Category:Church of England church buildings in Wiltshire
Category:Grade I listed churches in Wiltshire
Category:Churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust

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