Abbey Gate College Chapel (Formerly Saighton Grange Chapel)

ABBEY GATE COLLEGE CHAPEL (FORMERLY SAIGHTON GRANGE CHAPEL), CHAPEL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1130671
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Abbey Gate College Chapel (Formerly Saighton Grange Chapel)
Statutory Address:
ABBEY GATE COLLEGE CHAPEL (FORMERLY SAIGHTON GRANGE CHAPEL), CHAPEL LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1130671
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Abbey Gate College Chapel (Formerly Saighton Grange Chapel)
Statutory Address 1:
ABBEY GATE COLLEGE CHAPEL (FORMERLY SAIGHTON GRANGE CHAPEL), CHAPEL LANE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ABBEY GATE COLLEGE CHAPEL (FORMERLY SAIGHTON GRANGE CHAPEL), CHAPEL LANE

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

District:
Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Aldford and Saighton
National Grid Reference:
SJ 44322 61824

Details

SJ 46 SW SAIGHTON C.P. CHAPEL LANE (East side)

3/172 Abbey Gate College Chapel (formerly Saighton Grange Chapel)

GV II

Chapel, circa 1870, for 2nd or 3rd Marquis of Westminster. Red sandstone with tiled roof. A gabled, rectangular building, simple in expression. The open gable belfry has one bell under a short, square spire. A tall stone chimney, on ridge, has a round flue. Recessed porch in (ritual) south-west corner opens under a corbelled stone lintel to the end and under two post-and-lintel openings to the side. Four stained glass windows on (ritual) south side, 3 with late C19 glass, 1 late C20. Cross in patterned brickwork in (ritual) south gable. Hardwood door of 6 double panels. Designed in conjunction with, and to complement the character of the Grange.

Listing NGR: SJ4432161825

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
55370
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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