The Chapel About 350 Metres West and 650 Metres South of Gibside Hall
THE CHAPEL ABOUT 350 METRES WEST AND 650 METRES SOUTH OF GIBSIDE HALL, B6314
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1185345
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Chapel About 350 Metres West and 650 Metres South of Gibside Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHAPEL ABOUT 350 METRES WEST AND 650 METRES SOUTH OF GIBSIDE HALL, B6314
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1185345
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Chapel About 350 Metres West and 650 Metres South of Gibside Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHAPEL ABOUT 350 METRES WEST AND 650 METRES SOUTH OF GIBSIDE HALL, B6314
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 CHAPEL ABOUT 350 METRES WEST AND 650 METRES SOUTH OF GIBSIDE HALL, B6314
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 17187 58250
Details
NZ 15 NE WHICKHAM B6314 (north side) Gibside Estate
10/113 The Chapel; about 350 metres west and 6501.2.50 metres south of Gibside Hall.
G.V. I
Chapel and mausoleum. 1760-69; completed 1812. Designed by James Paine for George Bowes, M.P. and coal owner. Ashlar; lead-covered dome. Greek cross plan. Palladian style, Ionic order. One tall storey on basement, 3 x 3 bays. Plinth and floor band.2 side stairways and front balustrade to prostyle tetrastyle pedimented portico with central doorway. Attached corner columns; continous entablature; modillions to main features. Keyed archivolts and coved reveals to side sash windows with glazing bars. Tall parapet,with balustraded outer sections,has 6 urn finials. Central drum, with carved garlands, supports shallow dome. On other elevations the central projections hold recessed Diocletian windows, curved on plan to follow shape of room within. Interior: cruciform on 4 attached columns with apses on 3 sides. Corinthian order. Ionic order to lower cross-vaulted bays; Ionic doorway. Panelled dome with delicate leafy plasterwork (late C18 or early C19). Cherrywood box pews and dado; and 3-decker mahogany pulpit, with inlaid sounding board on Ionic column, behind central altar. Sources: C. Hussey 'Gibside, County Durham'; Country Life Feb. 8 and 15, 1952; 354-7 and 422-425.
Listing NGR: NZ1718458247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303878
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 15 February, (1952), 422 -425
Country Life in 8 February, (1952), 354-7
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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