The Slipper Chapel
THE SLIPPER CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1170439
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Slipper Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- THE SLIPPER CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1170439
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Slipper Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SLIPPER CHAPEL
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:
- THE SLIPPER CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF9209535333
Details
TF 93 NW
2/20
BARSHAM,
HOUGHTON ST GILES,
The Slipper Chapel
6.3.59
I
Chapel. Roman Catholic. Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. Mid C14 style. Decorated
wayside chapel, restored 1904 by Thomas Garner, architect, and re-opened for regular
worship in 1934. Flint walls with stone dressings and tiled roof of (Stone slates).
West front with diagonally set buttresses, door and two niches; decorated 3-light
window above with tracery inside recticulated framing, flanked by ogee headed niches
with C20 statues; gable with central niches and two diagonally placed turrets.
Fleuron-banded parapets to returns, with on south two 2-light Decorated windows. West
window and west gable of 1904. Interior of three bays with restored C15 Perpendicular
type arched braced roof. Furnishings mainly of 1934 by Miss Lillian Dagless, under
the direction of Monseigneur Squirrel : the pedestal and spirelet to the statue (of
1954), altar and reredos. East window 1954 by Geoffrey Webb, Comper style and
colouring. Arched tester over the altar. Corridor to north with sacristy and Chapel
of the Holy Ghost (1938). Monseigneur Bruno Scott-James as architect; stone altar
with gilt reredos; tester removed.
Listing NGR: TF9209535333
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 223507
- 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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