Roman Catholic Chapel approximately 20 metres north of Rudding Park House

Roman Catholic Chapel approximately 20 metres north of Rudding Park House, Rudding Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188365
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: Roman Catholic Chapel approximately 20 metres north of Rudding Park House
Statutory Address:: Roman Catholic Chapel approximately 20 metres north of Rudding Park House, Rudding Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188365
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: Roman Catholic Chapel approximately 20 metres north of Rudding Park House
Statutory Address 1:: Roman Catholic Chapel approximately 20 metres north of Rudding Park House, Rudding Lane

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Location

Statutory Address:: Roman Catholic Chapel approximately 20 metres north of Rudding Park House, Rudding Lane

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Follifoot
National Grid Reference:: SE 33396 53207

Details

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FOLLIFOOT RUDDING LANE (east side, off) Roman Catholic Chapel approximately 20 metres north of Rudding Park House

GV II

Roman Catholic Chapel of 1877 to 1879 by AE Purdie for Sir Percival Radcliffe, Bt. Coursed, rock-faced gritstone and ashlar, Westmorland slate roof. Five-bay nave with clerestory and side aisles, two-bay chancel with side-chapels and (added in 1907, also by Purdie) octagonal mortuary chapel attached to east end. A very large chapel in High Victorian Gothic style, with five-light east window with cinquefoils and quatrefoil openings. above. Four-light west window above main entrance. Stepped buttresses, ashlar gable copings, bellcote over junction between nave and chancel. The mortuary chapel has ornate crocketed pinnacles and a steep roof.

Interior: nave:circular piers of polished Aberdeen granite with naturalistic capitals. Other columns of pink marble with foliate capitals flank clerestory windows, and groups of three angels with musical instruments support triple columns of chancel arch. Elaborate reredos with flanking doorways, all with carvings of saints and crockets. Original fittings and furniture.

HISTORICAL NOTE: the elaborate NW porch with stepped buttresses and octagonal stair vice is the base of an intended but unfinished tower and steeple that formed part of Purdie’s original designs.

Listing NGR: SE3339653207

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Legacy System number:: 330678
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Leach, P, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England. Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North, (2009), 676-677
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.