Chapel Immediately North of Pythouse
CHAPEL IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF PYTHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1131162
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Immediately North of Pythouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF PYTHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1131162
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Immediately North of Pythouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF PYTHOUSE
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:
- CHAPEL IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF PYTHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Tisbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 90662 28677
Details
WEST TISBURY PYTHOUSE PARK ST 92 NW 4/308 Chapel immediately north of Pythouse
GV II*
Private chapel to country house. Circa 1827. Built by John Benett of Pythouse (qv) for his wife née Lucy Lambert of Boyton. Ashlar, the rear (east) wall is ashlar-faced brick, and with slate-clad brick vaulted roof with gabled ends. Plan: single cell rectangular plan orientated north-south and with entrance at the centre of the long west front and external steps on the east side down to the burial vault below. Gothick style. Exterior: The salient feature is the large buttresses on all sides and angle buttresses on the corners, all with pinnacles and set-offs (the crocketed pinnacles are missing). 1:3:1 bay west front, the centre bay gabled and with pointed arch niche above doorway, flanked by large pointed arch windows and narrower blind end bays; moulded string above the windows. Similar but blind rear (east) elevation with steps at centre down to vault below. Gable ends have large pointed arch window, that at south end has cill at ground level. All the moulded window dressings and frames have been removed. Interior: Plastered interior walls and 5-bay plastered brick lierne- vaulted ceiling with moulded ribs with bosses at the intersections and springing from shafts on the walls with small capitals. On the east wall the shafts are missing and the two small fireplaces have lost their chimneypieces. The burial vault below has two segmental arcades supporting narrow transverse vaults in ashlar with four tiers of coffin-chambers on either side. Note: It is said that the consecration of the chapel was refused by the Bishop of Salisbury. At the time of inspection (December 1989) the chapel was derelict and overgrown. Sources: N Pevsner, Buildings of England, Wiltshire, pp 356, 357.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321105
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 356,357
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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