Chapel of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene
Chapel of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, Magdalen's Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1150194
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- Chapel of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, Magdalen's Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1150194
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- Chapel of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, Magdalen's Road
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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 the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, Magdalen's Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ripon
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 31726 71779
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 127 August 2024 to amend the description
SE 3171
1/23
RIPON
MAGDALEN'S ROAD (east side)
Chapel of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene
(formerly listed as Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, Stonebridgegate (Chapel))
27.5.49
I
Hospital founded by Archbishop Thurstan (Archbishop 1114-40), and the chapel must date from shortly after the foundation. South doorway C12. Otherwise substantially C15. Hammer-dressed limestone. Low-pitched roof with parapets; finial on east gable; bellcote on west gable. Low side window on south site. Four-light Perpendicular east window. Interior has very good furnishings, including C15 screen, medieval stone altar, medieval tessellated pavement, and C17 communion rail with turned balusters.
History: the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene is slightly younger than that of St John, but this chapel is the only complete fragment of any of Ripon's medieval hospitals to survive from the time of its foundation. It had sisters and a priest, whose duties were to feed and shelter those affected by leprosy, maintain blind priests born in Ripon, and give alms to the poor.
Subsequent Archbishops provided it with brothers also, and a master; and in 1295 Archbishop Romanus decided that the master had to be a resident prebendary of the College. Subsequently the mastership was held by Abbot Marmaduke Bradley, the last Abbot of Fountains, who ended his days as a prebendary of Ripon. In 1544-45 it was re-organised as an Almshouse by Archbishop Lee; and when James I re-founded the college in 1604 its mastership (together with that of St John) was annexed to the new foundation as a perpetual gift. From the late C17 the masterships of the two hospitals were amalgamated in the office of Dean of Ripon.
As a result of the Charity Commissioners' Report of 1820, the two hospitals' estates were re-organised in 1864, enabling the premises to be rebuilt.
The Valor Ecclesiasticus (1535) reveals that the master (Marmaduke Bradley) had a "mansion house", garden and orchard. The Charity Commissioners in 1820 describe apartments for six sisters and a chapel across the street. There is no mention of the hospital buildings in either case, but it is known that there had been a separate house for sufferers of leprosy, demolished shortly before 1352 for lack of patients.
Listing NGR: SE3172871780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330124
- 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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