Number 88 (The Chantry House) And Attached Forecourt Walls and Gateway
NUMBER 88 (THE CHANTRY HOUSE) AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATEWAY, 88, WATLING STREET EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1189997
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Number 88 (The Chantry House) And Attached Forecourt Walls and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 88 (THE CHANTRY HOUSE) AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATEWAY, 88, WATLING STREET EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1189997
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Number 88 (The Chantry House) And Attached Forecourt Walls and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 88 (THE CHANTRY HOUSE) AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATEWAY, 88, WATLING STREET EAST
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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:
- NUMBER 88 (THE CHANTRY HOUSE) AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATEWAY, 88, WATLING STREET EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Towcester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 69356 48684
Details
SP6948
13/159
01/08/76
TOWCESTER
WATLING STREET EAST
No.88 (The Chantry House) and attached forecourt walls and gateway
(Formerly listed as No.88 (The Chantry)and Forecourt Wall at No.88 (The Chantry House)
GII*
House.C15 with considerable C18 and C19 alterations.Coursed squared ironstone and limestone,slate roof,stone end stacks.Two-unit through-passage plan.Two-storey, Four-window range.C19 studded plank door to left of centre in moulded wood surround and late C18 pedimented wood doorcase.The door is recessed in front with remains of original jettied timber-framed first floor above.Three-light C19 wood mullion and transom windows to ground floor with stop-chamfered lintels.Projecting tower to left end,originally a stair-turret,with moulded stone coping.Three-and two-light C19 casement windows to first floor with stop-chamfered lintels.Stone-coped gables with kneelers.Attached forecourt walls of coursed squared ironstone and limestone with ridged ironstone coping.C15 gateway to middle of front wall has chamfered jambs and many-moulded arch with fourth-centred head.The wall is stepped up above gateway. Interior:two-bay ground floor hall has moulded cross-beam ceiling and Tudor-arched stone fireplace with chamfered jambs and many-moulded head.Stone relief incorporated in wall probably C17 with allegorical figure of Victory blowing a trumpet. Built as a house for the two priests serving Archdeacon Sponne's chantry(q.v.Church of St. Lawrence),suppressed at the Reformation.Bought back in 1552 by the trustees of Sponne's Charity for use as a grammar school.Served as school and master's house until 1866, when it became a house.(Buildings of England: Northamptonshire,p.435; A Towcester Trail (leaflet),1983, published by The Towcester Local History Society).
Listing NGR: SP6935648684
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235180
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Towcester Local History Society, , A Towcester Trail, (1983)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 435
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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