Sherburn Hospital Chapel
SHERBURN HOSPITAL CHAPEL, A 191
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159384
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Sherburn Hospital Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- SHERBURN HOSPITAL CHAPEL, A 191
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159384
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sherburn Hospital Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHERBURN HOSPITAL CHAPEL, A 191
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:
- SHERBURN HOSPITAL CHAPEL, A 191
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shincliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 30858 41581
Details
SHINCLIFFE A 181 NZ 3041 (East side, off) Sherburn Hospital 12/84 Sherburn Hospital 28/2/52 Chapel ( formerly listed as Sherburn Hospital and Chapel in Sherburn House C.P.) II* Chapel of Sherburn Hospital. Circa 1181 nave with early C13 tower and chancel; badly damaged by fire 1864 and largely rebuilt, with added north aisle, 1868 by Austin and Johnson. Squared and dressed sandstone with graduated green slate roofs. Orientated north-west to south-east, ritual directions in description: west tower; continuous nave and chancel with north aisle. Romanesque with Geometrical Gothic tower. Broad, square, angle-buttressed 3-stage tower with restored openings. Tall lower stage with round-arched doorway on south and pointed lancets above. Blind arcades on second stage, each with 3 pointed arches: central lancet on west; colonnettes and central pair of lancets on south and north. Short top stage has blind arcades, each with 6 trefoil-headed arches on colonnettes. Restored embattled parapet on corbel table. Continuous 3-bay nave and 3-bay chancel. Nave has original south wall with flat-buttressed bay divisions and round-arched windows with sill string and continuous hoodmould. Windows have square-cut inner order and roll-moulded outer order. The rear arches have colonnettes and roll moulding which continues along sill. Restored chancel has buttresses with offsets and similar 1868 windows. Pair of small round- arched windows on east ends of chancel and aisle. Projecting eaves and a continuous, steeply-pitched roof with coped east gable. North aisle, on both nave and chancel, has off-centre buttress, chamfered round-arched windows and a steeply-pitched roof. Interior. South wall of chancel contains a double piscina, with damaged foliage capitals on squat shafts, and 3-seat sedilia with original jambs; both with restored trefoil-headed arches. 1868 north arcade of pointed arches. Small brass in sanctuary floor inscribed: THOMAS LEAVER PREACHER TO KING EDWARD THE SIXTE. HE DIED IN JULY 1577. C19 braced king-post roofs. (C.W. Gibby, Sherburn Hospital, 1976).
Listing NGR: NZ3085841581
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109965
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gibby, C W, Sherburn Hospital, (1976)
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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