Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
CHAPEL OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, GUY'S CLIFFE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117390
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, GUY'S CLIFFE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117390
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, GUY'S CLIFFE
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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 OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, GUY'S CLIFFE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leek Wootton and Guy's Cliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 29312 66810
Details
GUY'S CLIFFE
10/375
Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
(formerly included as Guy's Cliffe Chapel)
11.4.67
GV
II*
Circa early C15, altered mid C18 and early C19, restored 1874 and 1933. Circa 600 oratory chapel dedicated to St Mary Magdalene founded at Guy's Cliffe by Saint Dubritius. Circa 1430 present chapel rebuilt by Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, at cost £184. Circa 1764 chapel restored and upper part of tower built with crocketted pinnacles and parapet with battlements and frieze with cusped arcade. 1819-24 interior re-constructed and west and north-east windows 'open-up'. 1974 chapel adapted for use as Masonic Temple.
Consists of two parallel aisles of five bays with a porch and small tower at the centre of south-west wall. Hipped plain tile roof with gabled end to river. North-east third of random sandstone rubble, remainder of sandstone ashlar. Hollow chamfered windows with roll mouldings, one has tracery. Quatrefoil window to left hand side of tower. Winding stone staircase in tower leads to priests' rooms in rafters. Beneath chapel is undercroft and below that a barrel-vaulted chamber 6 metres by 2.4 metres known as dungeon. Chapel contains late C14 mutilated statue 2.4 metres high, carved out of rock face, reputed to represent Guy of Warwick who is held to have occupied the nearby excavations in the rock. John Rous, the C15 antiquarian, was a priest here.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 September 2018.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308037
- 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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