Chapel at St Bartholomew's Priory Farm
CHAPEL AT ST BARTHOLOMEW'S, PRIORY FARM, ST BARTHOLOMEW'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1037546
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at St Bartholomew's Priory Farm
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AT ST BARTHOLOMEW'S, PRIORY FARM, ST BARTHOLOMEW'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1037546
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at St Bartholomew's Priory Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AT ST BARTHOLOMEW'S, PRIORY FARM, ST BARTHOLOMEW'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:
- CHAPEL AT ST BARTHOLOMEW'S, PRIORY FARM, ST BARTHOLOMEW'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sudbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 87099 42803
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/01/2013
TL 84 SE 1/2
1692
3.3.52
ST BARTHOLOMEW'S LANE
Chapel at St Bartholomew's, Priory Farm
(Formerly listed as Chapel of St Bartholomew, Bartholomew's Farm)
GV II*
Chapel, now outbuilding. Early C15. Uncoursed flint rubble;
gabled old tile roof. Rectangular single-cell plan. Offset diagonal
corner buttresses and offset buttress to centre of 2-bay north and south eleva-
tions. Most window tracery has been lost. Moulded Tudor-arched
architraves to east window, which has remains of cusped Perpendicular
tracery to head; hood moulds with head stops over moulded 2-centred
arched windows to north and south, with remains of cusped Perpendicular
tracery to heads; hood mould over ancient studded door Set in moulded
2-centred architrave to west of south elevation; moulded Tudor-arched
architrave to west window, which has Cl9 brick to head. Interior:
complete trussed rafter roof of uniform scantling with no longitudinal
support. History: this chapel served the cell or grange of the Benedictine
Westminster Abbey, in existence on this site from 1115 to 1538; there is also a
C14 barn (q.v.) and post-dissolution farmhouse on the site; the prior's lodging
was demolished in 1779.
(C F D Sperling, A Short History of Sudbury, 1896)
Listing NGR: TL8709942803
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275913
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sperling, C F D, A Short History of Sudbury, (1896)
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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