Chapel of St Peter and St Paul at Cuddesdon House
CHAPEL OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL AT CUDDESDON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047708
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Peter and St Paul at Cuddesdon House
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL AT CUDDESDON HOUSE
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- Date:
- 2005-08-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/14560/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047708
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Peter and St Paul at Cuddesdon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL AT CUDDESDON HOUSE
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 OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL AT CUDDESDON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cuddesdon and Denton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 60047 03163
Details
SP 6003 CUDDESDON AND DENTON CUDDESDON 6/2 Chapel of SS. Peter and Paul at Cuddesdon House - II
Chapel. 1846. By Benjamin Ferrey for Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Coursed squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; artificial stone slate roof. 3-bay plan. Decorated style with reticulated tracery. West wall has two 2- light windows flanking a central buttress with a stone bell-cote on the gable. Three 2-light windows in the north wall separated by buttresses, and in the east wall a 3-light window with a quatrefoil in the gable. The south wall, which has been altered, abutted part of the demolished Bishops Palace. All windows have hood-moulds with carved heads as stops. Interior: Arch-braced roof with curved wind-braces, and oak screen to ante-chapel with reticulated tracery. West windows have armorial glass by Thomas Willement given by Queen Victoria, The Prince Consort and the Archbishops of York and Canterbury. (V.C.H. Oxfordshire V, p.101; Buildings of England, Oxfordshire, p.565)
Listing NGR: SP6004703167
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246390
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 101
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 563
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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