MUSEUM TOWER, BELL TOWER AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND WALL AND THE OLD CHAPEL, FINEDON HALL, AND ATTACHED WALL

MUSEUM TOWER, BELL TOWER AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND WALL AND THE OLD CHAPEL, FINEDON HALL, AND ATTACHED WALL, MACKWORTH DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1040633
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1970
List Entry Name:: MUSEUM TOWER, BELL TOWER AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND WALL AND THE OLD CHAPEL, FINEDON HALL, AND ATTACHED WALL
Statutory Address:: MUSEUM TOWER, BELL TOWER AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND WALL AND THE OLD CHAPEL, FINEDON HALL, AND ATTACHED WALL, MACKWORTH DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1040633
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: MUSEUM TOWER, BELL TOWER AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND WALL AND THE OLD CHAPEL, FINEDON HALL, AND ATTACHED WALL
Statutory Address 1:: MUSEUM TOWER, BELL TOWER AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND WALL AND THE OLD CHAPEL, FINEDON HALL, AND ATTACHED WALL, MACKWORTH DRIVE

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

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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:: MUSEUM TOWER, BELL TOWER AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND WALL AND THE OLD CHAPEL, FINEDON HALL, AND ATTACHED WALL, MACKWORTH DRIVE

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

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Finedon
National Grid Reference:: SP 91097 71968

Details

SP9171 09/06/70

FINEDON MACKWORTH DRIVE(South side) Museum Tower, Bell Tower andattached buildings and wall and The Old Chapel, Finedon Hall, and attached wall (Formerly listed as courtyard buildings, covered way, tower and other outbuildings of Finedon Hall, Station Road)

GII Range of outbuildings including a museum and wintergarden to Finedon Hall, now part dwelling house.Datestones 1851 and 1856, perhaps with C18 origins. Probably by E.F. Law for William Mackworth-Dolben. Ironstone ashlar with slate and pantile roofs. Museum tower and attached buildings are L-shape plan with The Old Chapel, former wintergarden,attached to north.Tudor-Gothic style, two and three storeys.West elevation to courtyard of four -window range of three-light stone mullion windows. Central gable entrance, known as bell tower, has semi-circular arch flanked by niches with triple lancet above under drip mould. Above are five small arched openings and a bellcote and datestone 1851. Clasping buttresses at corners.Ashlar parapet and ashlar stacks at ridge. Wall and ashlar gatepier attached to right. South levation to courtyard originally similar to west elevation now has one-window range remaining to far left with semi-circular arch opening below. Rear wall and two gable walls also remain; one has a Gothic window. Museum tower at intersection of wings, originally of two stages with gabled pyramid roof. Upper and lower stages remain with triple arcade to three faces of upper stage and three-storey, three window range of single-light openings to east face of lower stage. North face has semi-circular stair turret. Stone scrolls below the triple arcades have inscriptions "Filiis Fratibu Parentes", "W.H.I.M.D. and F.M.D.", and "Victoria Rgnant A.D. 1856". Remains of various other inscriptions and carved heads. The old chapel west elevation is a five-bay arcade of double-chamfred C19 Gothic arches with quatrfoil piers and foliated capitals.Trefoils in spandrels between arches. Corbelled cornice and ashlar gable parapets. C20 extension to left. Castellated wall attached to left has semi-circular arch opening and niches.Castellated wall attached to west end of south elevation and linking with the Hall has three stage buttresses and two small Gothic style openings to left and right. The Museum Tower, Bell Tower, attached buildings and wall form two sides of a courtyard with Finedon hall (q.v.). (Finedon Otherwise Thingdon by J.L.H. Bailey, p85).

Listing NGR: SP9109771968

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Bailey, J L H , Finedon Otherwise Thingdon85

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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.