Chapel of Our Lady
CHAPEL OF OUR LADY, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1132738
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of Our Lady
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF OUR LADY, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1132738
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of Our Lady
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF OUR LADY, BRIDGE STREET
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 OF OUR LADY, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 42740 93068
Details
SK49SW ROTHERHAM BRIDGE STREET (north side) 5/13 Chapel of 19.10.51 Our Lady GV I Bridge chapel. 1483, exterior restored 1924, interior restored 1980. Deeply-coursed, ashlar sandstone; roof not visible. Small gable-entry building set on north side of Rotherham Bridge (q.v.). Perpendicular with C20 tracery in keeping. Single-storey with undercroft, 1 x 2 bays. Entrance front: moulded plinth band interrupted by moulded, Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould; small slit window to its right; small 2-light window with hoodmould above. Peaked string course beneath embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Opposite gable: slit window to undercroft flanked by offset buttresses. Plinth band continues from entrance front beneath 4-light window with hoodmould, parapet as front has apex pinnacle. Side walls each with two 3-light windows with hoodmoulds. Interior: unimproved undercroft with remains of cell doors. C20 interior. Probably founded by Archbishop Thomas Rotherham. In 1483 John Bokying bequeathed 3s 4d to the fabric of the chapel to be built on Rotherham Bridge (Hey). Used as an almshouse before serving as town jail in 1779 (doors preserved in undercroft), used as private house from 1826 but became tobacconist's shop from 1888-1913. Reconsecrated 1924. D. Hey, 'Rotherham Bridge', Archaeological Journal, vol 137, 1980, p430. P. F. Ryder, Medieval Buildings of Yorkshire, 1982, p82 (plate).
Listing NGR: SK4274093067
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335645
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryder, J, Medieval Buildings of Yorkshire, (1982), 82 (plate)
Archaeological Journal in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 137, (1980), 430
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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