Chapel of St Mary at Arley Hall
Chapel of St Mary at Arley Hall, Arley Hall
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1139505
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Mary at Arley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Chapel of St Mary at Arley Hall, Arley Hall
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1139505
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Mary at Arley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Chapel of St Mary at Arley Hall, Arley Hall
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 St Mary at Arley Hall, Arley Hall
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aston By Budworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 67556 80968
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/04/2020
SJ 68 SE
3/11
ASTON-BY-BUDWORTH C.P.
ARLEY HALL
Chapel of St Mary at Arley Hall
7.9.79
GV
II*
Chapel. 1845. By Anthony Salvin with north aisle of 1856-1857 by George Street. Ashlar and rendered brick with slate and tile roofs. Nave with north aisle, bell turret, porch and chancel. Decorated Gothic.
South front: four bay nave, two-light pointed mullioned window to left with hood mould. Projecting two-storey bay to right of this (originally forming connecting passages to house) now with rendered south wall. Plain ashlar west wall. Canted enriched oriel to east front supported on buttress with carved beasts and small lancets to either side with cusped tracery. In the angle between the projection and the body of the nave is an octagonal bell turret with one lancet to the south east wall. Eight lancet openings to bell stage with hood moulds and end-stops. Red tiled double-pitch roof above this.
Nave body to right has a moulded base common to the chancel and east end. Two two-light mullioned windows with varied tracery. Buttresses between with off-sets and gargoyles above. Angled buttress at east end of nave with niche containing statue of Virgin and Child on a column and moulded canopy and gargoyle above. Pierced parapet common to nave and chancel.
Chancel: of two bays set back slightly from the nave with two, two-light Decorated windows. Buttress between with off sets and gargoyle spout and crocketed pinnacle over. Moulded lead rain water head and down pipe. Priests door with wrought iron decoration below left-hand window.
North front: of Street's building with plainer decorated tracery and with plain buttresses between. Right hand window has doorway beneath with carved stonework to spandrels and wrought iron work to door. Left hand nave window is a double Decorated design of two x two lights. Vestry to left has one triple lancet to right.
East front has late decorated window to vestry and window of c1890 to chancel. The west wall is now rendered to its lower part where it originally joined the house and has stone work to the gable with a traceried window.
Interior: nave south wall has string course with ball flower end stops. Two-storey moulded arch to original entrance from house. Wooden moulded panelling to gallery front. North arcade of three bays with ovolo-moulded colomettes by Street with high-relief capitals of foliage. Nave roof supported on wooden angle corbels, holding shields, arch braces to tie with longitudinal beam. Three double-corona chandeliers with candelabra and lectern by Singer of Frome, Somerset c1880. Walls originally plastered, brickwork now exposed.
North aisle has stone corbels supporting lean-to roof. Pierced spandrels to roof. Iron screen by Street richly polychromatically painted as is the iron radiator cover in the style of a C13 tomb with lily finials.
Front: richly carved stone bowl with eight panels carved with foliage designs and the Agnus Dei supported on a cluster of marble columns. Chancel has piscina and triple sedilia. East window stained glass by Kempe of 1895.
Listing NGR: SJ6755680968
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58503
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,
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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