BERKHAMSTED SCHOOL CHAPEL

BERKHAMSTED SCHOOL CHAPEL, CASTLE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078168
Date first listed:: 09-May-1973
List Entry Name:: BERKHAMSTED SCHOOL CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: BERKHAMSTED SCHOOL CHAPEL, CASTLE STREET

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Date:: 1999-09-17
Reference:: IOE01/00439/14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078168
Date first listed:: 09-May-1973
List Entry Name:: BERKHAMSTED SCHOOL CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: BERKHAMSTED SCHOOL CHAPEL, CASTLE 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BERKHAMSTED SCHOOL CHAPEL, CASTLE STREET

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Berkhamsted
National Grid Reference:: SP 99428 07855

Details

1, 839 CASTLE Street (West Side) BERKHAMSTED SCHOOL CHAPEL SP 9907 NW 1/107

II GV

2. 1894-5 by Charles Henry Rew in Tudor style. Red brick exterior stone dressed. Interior: tall steep flight of steps to sanctuary reputedly inspired by the plan of Santa Maria dei Miracoli at Venice. Vestry underneath sanctuary, shallow transepts on either side of steps. VCH II, p 165.

Berkhamsted School Old Building, School Chapel and New Hall form a group,

Listing NGR: SP9942807855

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Legacy System number:: 355429
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908), 165

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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.