CHAPEL SOUTH WEST OF HARLOWBURY IN GROUNDS

CHAPEL SOUTH WEST OF HARLOWBURY IN GROUNDS, OLD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1111694
Date first listed:: 05-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL SOUTH WEST OF HARLOWBURY IN GROUNDS
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL SOUTH WEST OF HARLOWBURY IN GROUNDS, OLD ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-06
Reference:: IOE01/00258/32
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1111694
Date first listed:: 05-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL SOUTH WEST OF HARLOWBURY IN GROUNDS
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL SOUTH WEST OF HARLOWBURY IN GROUNDS, OLD ROAD

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:: CHAPEL SOUTH WEST OF HARLOWBURY IN GROUNDS, OLD ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Harlow (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 47729 12056

Details

1. 5216 OLD ROAD Chapel south-west of Harlowbury in grounds TL 41 SE 2/2 5.7.50 GV 2. Norman Chapel, of circa 1170/80, plain and originally unbuttressed, with 3 windows in north, and south, walls, original windows in east and west, gables. Built of rubble with dressings of Reigate clunch and brick with some having bone set tiles. North door of 2 square orders with attached nook shafts sectioned as painted rolls, water leaf capitals. Re-roofed between circa 1300 and circa 1404 when desecrated and floored with timber - for use as a granary. This later roof has good crown posts with carinated fillets; the original system of roofing was late Saxon in method, for which evidence, and 2 gable rafter-couples survive. (RCHM3).

Listing NGR: TL4772912056

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Legacy System number:: 119524
Legacy System:: LBS

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An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.