Old Rectory Farmhouse and Attached Roman Catholic Chapel of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
OLD RECTORY FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, FRIAR'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024377
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory Farmhouse and Attached Roman Catholic Chapel of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RECTORY FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, FRIAR'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024377
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory Farmhouse and Attached Roman Catholic Chapel of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD RECTORY FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, FRIAR'S LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RECTORY FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, FRIAR'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brailes
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3169239286
Details
BRAILES FRIAR'S LANE
SP3139 (East side)
Lower Brailes
15/28 Old Rectory Farmhouse and
03/10/66 attached R.C. Chapel of S.S.
Peter and Paul
(Formerly listed as The Old
Rectory)
GV II*
House and chapel. Late C16/early C17 with earlier origins. C18 alterations. West
elevation: regular coursed ironstone rubble. Steeply pitched stone slate roof
laid to diminishing courses. 2 storeys plus attic. 3-window range. U-plan.
Entrance has plank door with wrought-iron strap hinges, moulded wood frame and
chamfered wood lintel. To left a 2-light casement with bars. To right a 2-light
casement with bars. First floor has a 16-pane sash, a 2-light stone-mullioned
window with diagonal lead cames and a 2-light wood-mullioned window with
rectangular lead cames and wood lintel. Attic has 4 fixed light windows with
stone surrounds. South front: early C18 red brick laid to Flemish bond. Steeply
pitched stone slate roof. Brick ridge and end stacks on stone bases. Stone
lateral stacks. 2 storeys. 3-window range. Central entrance has panelled door
with moulded wood door frame and hood. Doorway is flanked by 16-pane sashes with
brick flat arches. 3 similar windows to first floor. 2 gabled roof dormers.
Interior: 2 south facing rooms have stone flag floors, stop-chamfered or pointed
C16 moulded beams, C19 fireplaces with earlier fireplaces in situ. Room to north
has massive inglenook with cut bressumer and Victorian and Edwardian fireplaces
fronting earlier fireplace and showing successive additions. Kitchen has massive
inglenook with C18 beam fronting original bressumer, bread oven, Jacobean style
racks above fireplace. Cast-iron fittings including cooking pots and hooks and
spit racks. Oak settle. Stop-chamfered beam. Pantry. Stone flag floors. Hall to
rear of kitchen has C17 open well staircase with heavy turned balusters. 3 rooms
to north of hall not available for inspection. Roof said to be late medieval.
Rectory barn now R.C. chapel above brewhouse and dairy in ground floor. Chapel
dated 1726. Ironstone ashlar. Steeply pitched Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys.
6-window range. Plank door to left has moulded wood frame and wood lintel. Three
2-light windows with astragals and wood lintels. 6 wood mullioned and transomed
windows to first floor have late C19/early C20 stained glass. Two C20 skylights.
Rear: covered external stone staircase to chapel. 4 wood mullioned and transomed
windows with stop-chamfered lintels to chapel. Interior: ground floor has 3-bay
brewhouse/malthouse to left with recesses for coppers and wide fireplace with
massive bressumer. Timber-frame partition with lathe and plaster to right and
side passage to 5 small rooms used as dairy and wine cellar. The 2 end rooms
have wire mesh windows and stone flag floors and wide shelves. Room third from
right has plank door with strap hinges and was probably a wine cellar.
Stop-chamfered beams. The passage wall has moulded stone plinths. First floor
chapel with confessional, sacristy and priest's study. Early C18 details include
wood panelling, oak altar rails, ceiling cornices, 6-panelled doors and wooden
window shutters. Three early C18 pine pews with drawers. Other pews C19.
Priest's study has one wall with C18 hand painted wall paper and C18
bookshelves. The chapel is attached to the Old Rectory Farmhouse. William
Bishop, the first R.C. Bishop, lived here.
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire, 1981, p.218; V.C.H.: Warwickshire, 1949,
Vol.V, p.17).
Listing NGR: SP3169239286
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305791
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981), 218
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981), 17
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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