Chapel at Aysgarth School
CHAPEL AT AYSGARTH SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131416
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Aysgarth School
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AT AYSGARTH SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131416
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Aysgarth School
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AT AYSGARTH SCHOOL
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 AT AYSGARTH SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton-le-Willows
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 20893 89034
Details
The following building shall be added:
NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS Chapel at Aysgarth SE 28 NW School 7/70
II
School chapel.Opened 1890, by Moscrop and Clark of Darlington; woodwork mostly early C20 by Robert Thompson (of Kilburn). Red brick in English garden wall bond (3:1) with ashlar dressings; plain tile roof. 2-bay nave and l-bay chancel in single vessel. Perpendicular-traceried windows of 3 lights to nave, 2 lights to chancel (at higher level) all with monolithic lintels, and 5-light basket- arched east window. Roll-moulded band, stepping up round chancel. Bracketed eaves table. Roll-moulded ridge with Celtic-cross finial. Polygonal stair tower to organ loft at north-west corner has plinth, stone upper stage with louvres, cornice, and recessed tiled spire with knob finial (the spire formerly taller). Foundation stone at south-east corner with initials 'MH' (Mary Hales, wife of the school's founder, Rev. E. T. Hales) and eroded date.
Interior: decorative terazzo floor, marble altar base. Walls panelled at base with richly-decorated stencil work above. Coved cornice with decorative bosses. Panelled waggon roof, with decorative bosses in chancel and above chancel screen angels holding shield with the college and school coats of armour of the school's founder. In four windows, fine stained glass by Henry Holiday and also by Holiday, enamel panel inset in nave south wall. High quality woodwork by Robert Thompson including: open-traceried altar rail, seats with desks, panelled pews, and probably the delicate, arcaded chancel screen. Polygonal pulpit of different style, the panels with arches, guilloche bands, fluted columns and egg and dart cornice. Wooden screen at west end (separating chapel from corridor) with seats against it under coved organ loft, the organ and decorative case by Abbot and Smith of Leeds. Access to organ-loft stair-tower is from the corridor outside the chapel.
Listing NGR: SE2089389034
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322480
- 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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