St Nicholas Barway
ST NICHOLAS BARWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1160740
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas Barway
- Statutory Address:
- ST NICHOLAS BARWAY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1160740
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas Barway
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST NICHOLAS BARWAY
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:
- ST NICHOLAS BARWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Soham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 54516 75777
Details
TL 57 NW SOHAM BARWAY
3/36 St. Nicholas Barway (formerly listed as 19.8.59 Chapel of St.Nicholas, Barway)
GV II*
Chapel of Ease to Soham minster Church, converted to a house in 1970s, retaining much of the fabric and original detail of the C14 nave and rebuilt C19 chancel. Clunch and Barnack limestone with steeply pitched roof of slate. West end has pointed arches to two original bell-cote openings with a mask above. Below is a restored C14 window of three lights with reticulated tracery in a two-centred arch. The label and mask stops are original. Both north and south walls have original two-stage buttressing of Barnack limestone at the corners. The south doorway is of clunch. Two-centred arch of two chamfered orders with a moulded label and mask stops. One window of two lights in square head with moulded label and mask stops. The north doorway is also two-centred but of only one chamfered order with a moulded label and very worn mask stops. One two-light window in a square head with splayed reveals. C19 chancel of yellow gault brick with low pitch, slate roof. One reset head mask in east gable end. Interior. The chancel arch is two-centred and of two chamfered orders. There is a two-centred chamfered arch to a piscina in the south wall of the nave. The font is C13 with an octagonal bowl on a modern stem. The late C17 communion rails have been removed and reset in the first floor but the early Cl9 pulpit and steps are still in their original location. The staggered, tenoned purlin roof is of C17 construction. Pevsner: Buildings of England, p.300.
Listing NGR: TL5451675777
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48847
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 300
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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