Ruins of Church Or Chapel
RUINS OF CHURCH OR CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1153531
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Church Or Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF CHURCH OR CHAPEL
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- Date:
- 2004-08-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/12083/33
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1153531
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Church Or Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF CHURCH OR CHAPEL
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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:
- RUINS OF CHURCH OR CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Acklington
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 20837 03136
Details
ACKLINGTON BRAINSHAUGH NU 20 SW Ruins of Church 7/17 or Chapel (formerly listed 3.12.69 as Priory (Chapel of St II* Wilfred) GV
Church or Chapel. Nave late C11 or C12; chancel C13 or C14. Nave squared stone with some long blocks in lower courses, and irregular alternate quoins; chancel slightly-poorer mansonry; cut dressings. Nave, formerly with 2-bay south aisle,and chancel. West end has lower jambs of narrow central window; north wall full height but featureless. West part of chancel north wall is C19 rebuild; in east part a blocked doorway with pointed head cut from two large blocks (c.f. Bothal). East end is C18 graveyard wall apparently on old foundations. South chancel wall shows priest's door with double-chamfered depressed arch; jambs of large C14 window to the east and a smaller, perhaps low-side, window immediately west.
Interior: Nave 9.1 x 4.8 metres; chancel 8.7 x 4.8 metres. Walls c.0.8 metres thick except for west end 0.95 metres. Moulded corbel at north-west corner and sockets for braces to roof trusses in nave north wall; bases of semicircular east respond and circular central pier of the south arcade. Chancel has tall rear arch to blocked north door with semicircular arch above lintel; an apparent keystone hints at post-medieval alteration; aumbry to west.
South wall shows trefoiled piscina with remains of twin bowls; shouldered inner jambs to C14 windows.
C19 concrete paving throughout with 1864 ledger slab to Tate family at west end.
Historical note: A Premonstratension nunnery at 'Gysnes' (Guyzance) was founded in early C12 by Richard Tison, and converted to a parochial curacy before the Dissolution. Early documents mention both the 'capella monialum' (monastery church) and the 'ecclesia de Gisyng' (church of Guyzance) so it is hard to say which the present ruin represents; foundations to the south and south-east suggest the buildings of a small religious house. Scheduled Ancient Monument (NU 209032)
Listing NGR: NU2083703136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236687
- 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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