CHAPEL ADJOINING SOUTH SIDE OF ST MARY'S SCHOOL

CHAPEL ADJOINING SOUTH SIDE OF ST MARY'S SCHOOL, NEWBURY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1048518
Date first listed:: 06-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL ADJOINING SOUTH SIDE OF ST MARY'S SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL ADJOINING SOUTH SIDE OF ST MARY'S SCHOOL, NEWBURY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1048518
Date first listed:: 06-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL ADJOINING SOUTH SIDE OF ST MARY'S SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL ADJOINING SOUTH SIDE OF ST MARY'S SCHOOL, NEWBURY STREET

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 ADJOINING SOUTH SIDE OF ST MARY'S SCHOOL, NEWBURY STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:: Wantage
National Grid Reference:: SU 39873 87706

Details

WANTAGE NEWBURY STREET SU3987 (West side) 7/137 Chapel adjoining S side of St. Mary's School

GV II

School chapel. 1898-9, by Ponting. Flemish bond red brick with limestone ashlar dressings; old tile roof. Nave with apsidal east end and porch with vestibule to west. Cross with curved hood mould above pointed multi-chamfered arch over double-leaf plank doors, which are flanked by 3-light lancet windows. Taller gable wall behind porch has decorative canopy over carving at apex, above 2 two-light late C13 style windows set in multi-chamfered architraves. Gable wall of chapel has multi-chamfered pointed arch over blue brick tympanum with elaborate rose window. Gothic crocketed spire to left. 5-bay side walls have pointed lancets wtih ashlar band at sill level, and lean-to roof over passage with Diocletian windows to left. Large offset and gabled buttresses to apsidal east end, with gabled roofs over late C13 style 2-light windows with ashlar sills. Gabled roof. Interior: Apse has wooden tierceron-vault. Decorated-style sedilia and canopies over statues flanking east window. Nave has wall pulpit, linenfold panelling, original pews flanking central aisle, balcony to west and barrel-vaulted roof. Vestibule to west framed by chamfered pointed arches; decorative canopies over statues flanking multi-chamfered pointed arch over double-leaf doors to chapel; pointed cavetto-moulded doorway to newel stairs on left. Stained glass windows. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.254).

Listing NGR: SU3987387706

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Legacy System number:: 251234
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 254

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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.