CHAPEL TO SOMERSET HOSPITAL

CHAPEL TO SOMERSET HOSPITAL, BATH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1034077
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL TO SOMERSET HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL TO SOMERSET HOSPITAL, BATH ROAD

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Date:: 2001-05-03
Reference:: IOE01/03689/08
Rights:: © Mr Andy Domeracki. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1034077
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL TO SOMERSET HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL TO SOMERSET HOSPITAL, BATH ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL TO SOMERSET HOSPITAL, BATH ROAD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Froxfield
National Grid Reference:: SU 30002 68069

Details

FROXFIELD BATH ROAD SU 26 NE (north side) 2/9 Chapel to Somerset Hospital (formerly listed as Duchess of 22.8.66 Somerset Almshouse and Hospital and Chapel) GV II* Chapel. 1813, for James Brudenell Bruce, Earl of Ailsbury in memory of Sarah, Dowager Duchess of Somerset. Ashlar limestone with concealed lead roof. Gothic. Three bays, in centre of courtyard of hospital. Two 2-light windows to south with shallow cinquefoil heads. Thin buttresses and crocketed wall canopy frieze over dedicatory inscription. Three-light east and west windows. Interior: Paired panelled wall pilasters supporting painted timber vault with silvered ribs. Later C19 raised and tiled east end and communion rail. White painted panelled stalls facing central aisle. Octagonal pulpit.

Listing NGR: SU2999668074

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Legacy System number:: 310729
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.