Chapel of St John the Baptist
CHAPEL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, BONDGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173650
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, BONDGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173650
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, BONDGATE
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:
- CHAPEL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, BONDGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ripon
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 31377 70890
Details
SE 3170 RIPON BONDGATE 5/67 (east side) 27.5.4 Chapel of St John the GV Baptist
II
Mid-C19. Limestone ashlar. Slate roof. Nave and polygonally-apsed chancel. Bell-cote corbelled as on west gable. South porch of timber with cusped openwork tracered sides. Hipped roofed vestry. Small, and 2 and 4-light Perpendicular windows. Four-light Early English window at west end with intersecting bar tracery.
History. The Hospital of St John, of which this is the successor chapel, was founded between 1109 and 1114 by Archbishop Thomas II of York, for 3 purposes; to provide hospitality for poor travellers, to support 4 or 5 poor clerks teaching in Ripon, and to provide soup for the poor. It was re-endowed in 1340 by the then Master, David de Wollore, Master of the Rolls to Edward III, and a canon of Ripon, in order to support of chaplain and poor boys attending the grammar schools in Ripon. In 1544-5 it was re-organised as an Almshouse by Archbishop Lee; and when James I re-founded the College in 1604 its mastership (together with the Hospital of St Mary) was annexed to the new foundation as a perpetual gift. From the late C17 the masterships of the 2 hospitals were amalgamated in the office of Dean of Ripon.
In this period, when the Mastership was a sinecure, the Hospital had some notable masters including John Bramhall (Inter Archbishop of Armagh) (Master 1625-34), his successor Dr John Wilkins (Oliver Cromwell's brother-in-law, co-founder of the Royal Society and Bishop of Chester), and, in the C18, Heneage Dering, reputed to be the richest cleric in England.
As a result of the Charity Commissioners' Report of 1800, the 2 hospitals' estates were re-organised in 1864, enabling the premises to be rebuilt.
The mediaeval chapel was not mentioned in the Valor Ecclesiasticus (1535), so it was either insignificant or non-existent. A chapel existed by 1812, when it was let to a National School. In 1864 the school had moved, and the chapel was ruins. The present chapel was built on an ambitious scale, with seating for 200, at a cost of £1,200, thereby incurring a debt of £700.
Listing NGR: SE3137770890
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330009
- 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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