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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Overview
- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 233688
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bailey, J L H, Finedon Otherwise Thingdon, (), 85
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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