Chapel of St Mary
CHAPEL OF ST MARY, WARMINSTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1180966
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST MARY, WARMINSTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1180966
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST MARY, WARMINSTER ROAD
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 MARY, WARMINSTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chitterne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 98957 43893
Details
CHITTERNE WARMINSTER ROAD ST 94 SE (north side) 4/27 Chapel of St Mary (formerly listed as "Chapel") 11.9.68 GV II* Chancel of partly demolished church, now mortuary chapel. Circa 1450. Limestone and flint chequers, tiled roof with alternate bands of plain or beaver tail tiles, coped verges. Chamfered plinth. West wall is rubble stone with hollow-chamfered pointed doorway, reset, planked door with strap hinges. South side has blocked Tudor-arched doorway with flanking 2-light square-headed window with Tudor-arched lights and hoodmoulds. Three-light Perpendicular east window with pointed hoodmould, three late C18 or early C19 wall tablets with pediments to Huntly and Wheeler families. North side has two square-headed 2-light windows same as on south side. Interior: rendered walls, flagstone floors, plastered barrel- vaulted ceiling. The font and pulpit from this church were moved to Church of All Saints (q.v.) in 1860s when nave and tower demolished, but some fittings retained. C15 crocketed ogee-arched canopy in south east window, no longer with effigy. C17 communion table. C19 communion rail. Fragments of late Medieval stained glass, brought here from the demolished Medieval Church of All Saints. Two memorial tablets on west wall; stone tablet with floral drops and scrolled pediment with marble inscription panel to Samuel Biggs died 1789, stone tablet with reeded pilasters and moulded cornice to Ann Sanders died 1800. Following the demolition of the larger part of this church in 1860s, the chancel was retained as a mortuary chapel. (Unpublished records of RCHM (E), Salisbury).
Listing NGR: ST9895743893
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313500
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Salisbury, (1981)
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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