Giggleswick School Chapel
GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL CHAPEL, CRAVEN BANK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1131724
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Giggleswick School Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL CHAPEL, CRAVEN BANK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1131724
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Giggleswick School Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL CHAPEL, CRAVEN BANK LANE
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:
- GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL CHAPEL, CRAVEN BANK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Giggleswick
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 80720 63927
Details
GIGGLESWICK CRAVEN BANK LANE SD 86 SW (south side) 4/9 20.2.58 Giggleswick School Chapel
GV II*
School chapel. 1897-1901. By T G Jackson. Gothic Banded rockfaced millstone grit sandstone and limestone, copper hipped roof to nave and copper covered terracotta dome to chancel, Elterwater slate aisles. Latin cross plan: west entrance porch, 3 bay nave; one bay chancel, narrow side aisles. 5 bay west entrance to narthex, lean-to slate roof. 4 centre head to central entrance, plank doors, strap hinges. 4 round headed chamfered windows within shallow segmental arched arcades. Rose window with cusped lights. Set-back buttresses. Nave: right-hand entrance on south side has lintel dated 1897, plank door. 3 small round headed lights to aisles, three 3-light Perpendicular windows with 4-centre heads and hoodmoulds to clerestory; corbel table. Square chancel defined by octagonal turrets on square bases at each angle, louvred bell stages and sandstone caps. 5-light Decorated south window and similar but 7-light east window. Two 2-light round headed windows on north. Interior: Italian sgrafitto work throughout. Nave: inlaid marble floor. Bronze statutes of Edward VI and Queen Victoria by G Frampton in niches above nave entrance; stained glass west window by Jackson. Pews, choir stalls and pulpit of Argentine cedar. Round headed arcade to aisles, foliated capitals. Barrel vaulted roof with King post trusses. Chancel: stained glass by Burlison and Grylls. Tesserae to dome and pendentives. Octagonal lantern above dome. Source: E A Bell A History of Giggleswick School (Leeds, 1912), pp 198-203.
Listing NGR: SD8072063927
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323803
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bell, E A, A History of Giggleswick School, (1912), 198-203
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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