CHAPEL OF ST SILAS

CHAPEL OF ST SILAS, BOLLINGHAM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1157325
Date first listed:: 16-Oct-1967
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST SILAS
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL OF ST SILAS, BOLLINGHAM

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Date:: 2003-09-17
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1157325
Date first listed:: 16-Oct-1967
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST SILAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL OF ST SILAS, BOLLINGHAM

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL OF ST SILAS, BOLLINGHAM

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Eardisley
National Grid Reference:: SO 30173 52695

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/08/2015

SO 35 SW 3/38

EARDISLEY CP, Bollingham, Chapel of St Silas

(Formerly listed as Bollingham Chapel, A 4111 (west side))

16.10.67

II*

Chapel. Probably C13, restored in 1867 and 1890. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses. Three- bay nave with west bellcote and south porch and two-bay chancel. Nave: 2- light C19 west window with hoodmould and head stops. North elevation was refaced in C19 and has a buttress with offsets to east of centre, a 2-light window and two cusped lancets, all C19. South elevation has similar windows. West bellcote is C19 and gabled with a gabled finial to the centre of the ridge. There are two pointed arched openings with imposts and a bell in the northern opening. South porch is C19 and gabled with a pointed timber archway and scissor-truss roof. The south doorway has a chamfered timber cambered head and chamfered ashlar jambs. Chancel has a C19 east window of three lights with hoodmould and head stops. In the south elevation is a C19 cusped lancet, to the west of which is a medieval carved corbel. Interior: C19 pointed chancel arch of two chamfered orders, the inner on moulded corbels. Nave has a C14 or C15 roof with arch-braced collar trusses and king-post trusses, moulded wall-plates and a single tier of cusped wind-braces (partly renewed). The chancel roof is also medieval in part and has a central C19 arch-braced collar truss. Font is C19, stone with octagonal bowl on four columns with ornate capitals. Font of similar date, three-sided with engaged columns. There is a stoup east of the south doorway. Memorials: in the nave is a ledger slab to Sarah Higgins, died 1711. (RCHM, III, p 52, item 2).

Listing NGR: SO3017352695

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Legacy System number:: 150592
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 52

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.