Withcote Chapel
WITHCOTE CHAPEL, OAKHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1074845
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Withcote Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- WITHCOTE CHAPEL, OAKHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1074845
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Withcote Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WITHCOTE CHAPEL, OAKHAM ROAD
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:
- WITHCOTE CHAPEL, OAKHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Withcote
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 79577 05793
Details
WITHCOTE
SK 70 NE OAKHAM ROAD (South East Side)
2/126 Withcote Chapel
29.12.66
GV I
Chapel. C15, restored and refurbished inside, c1744. Finely coursed ironstone with limestone dressings and leaded roof. 4 bays, the nave and chancel undifferentiated. Square headed windows each with 3 round headed lights linked by continuous hoodmould. North doorway with 4-centred arched head, roll moulded architrave and square hoodmould, with decoration in the spandrels. Traces of blocked west doorway, and south door similar to north. Buttressed, and with embattled parapet which is continuous across the low pitched east and west gables. Tall angle pinnacles are reminiscent of Kings College Chapel, Cambridge.
Inside, the fittings are largely C18. Wood dado panelling, early C18 wrought iron altar rails, and reredos in Renaissance style: tripartite, the centre piece with fluted Corinthian shafts and the canted side pieces pedimented on Corinthian columns, each containing an identical marble monument. That to north commemorates Geffrey Johnson, d. 1742 and his sister, and the south, Matthew Johnson d. 1723 and Margaret his wife. The monuments are each surmounted by urns and a shield of arms. Plaster modillion eaves cornice.
Stained glass of c153D-40 and attributed to Galeon Hone, the King's glazier who worked at Kings College Chapel. Large standing figures of the prophets and Old Testiment figures to south, apostles to north. In the eastern windows, 3 smaller panels depict saints and the crucifixion in landscape settings. Strong rich colours and fluid design. Some heraldic panels, one containing the personal arms of Jane Seymour (1536-7).
Listing NGR: SK7957705793
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 190655
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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