Uppingham School, Chapel
Chapel, Uppingham School
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1073175
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Uppingham School, Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- Chapel, Uppingham School
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- Date:
- 2006-05-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/15325/18
- Rights:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1073175
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Uppingham School, Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Chapel, Uppingham School
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, Uppingham School
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Uppingham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 86504 99620
Details
SP 8699-8799
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UPPINGHAM
Uppingham School, Chapel
10.11.55
GV
II*
Chapel. 1865 by G.E Street, west galilee late C19, War Memorial Chapel c.1922 by E. Newton, north wall partly removed and chapel substantially enlarged to north 1965 by Seely and Paget. Of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof with coped gables and decorative ridge tiles. Gothic Revival.
Five bay nave and two bay chancel beneath one roof. South side divided by massive buttresses. Geometric tracery to windows, each one slightly different. North west vaulted porch linking chapel with school room and round stair turret with traceried bell stage and conical roof. Wheel window to west. West galilee added to house marble statue of Edward Thring (headmaster) by Thomas Brock, 1892, now in north east porch of 1965, leading to north extension lit by full-length full-width window.
Interior of chapel now mainly C20 in character but retaining fine roof and west gallery of 1865. War Memorial Chapel at south west corner in form of miniature "chapter house", octagonal in plan with a patterned lead pyramidal roof punctuated by two-light traceried gabled dormers, and with richly decorated interior: walls with blind tracery listing names of World War I fallen (including E.H Brittain, brother of the writer) and highly enriched cove, cornice and lantern.
Listing NGR: SP8650499620
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 186745
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 27 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/58388
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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