Former Workhouse Chapel

Former Workhouse Chapel, High Road

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1032005
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1972
Statutory Address:
Former Workhouse Chapel, High Road

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Date:
2002-09-15
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1032005
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1972
Statutory Address 1:
Former Workhouse Chapel, High Road

Location

Statutory Address:
Former Workhouse Chapel, High Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Shipmeadow
National Grid Reference:
TM 37881 89787

Details

TM 38 NE
4/47

SHIPMEADOW
HIGH ROAD
Former Workhouse Chapel

16-3-72

GV
II
Former chapel to the Wangford Hundred workhouse, now used as a farm store. 1865-66 by G.E Street. Red brick with a plain tiled roof with crest tiles. In the Gothic style. A single roof covers both nave and apsidal chancel: the junction is marked by a fleche on the roof and a brick buttress on each side wall. The nave has a range of three coupled lancet windows with a circle above. The apsidal end has three lancet windows. At the west end is an open lean-to porch and a three-light window. Plain red brick walls inside.

Listing NGR: TM3788189787

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282198
Legacy System:
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