Chapel of Ease
CHAPEL OF EASE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190670
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of Ease
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF EASE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190670
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of Ease
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF EASE, MAIN STREET
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 EASE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornton-le-Beans
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 39556 90383
Details
In the entry for: SE 39 SE THORNTON LE BEANS MAIN STREET (west end, off) 2/69 Chapel of Ease 31.3.70 II
The description shall be amended to read:
Chapel of ease. 1770, refenestrated in late C19. Coursed squared stone, ashlar dressings; graduated Westmorland slate roof. Nave with south porch, chancel. Nave: 4 bays expressed as 3. Gabled porch to left of centre, has basket arch and inner doorway with chamfered, square-headed surround to board door. Bay 1 has cusped, square-headed 1-light window; to right of porch is a similar 2-light window on left of sundial without gnomon. Gable copings. Offset bellcote at west end has cornice and gable. Chancel: single-light south window; cusped pointed-arched east window; small opening in gable beneath ashlar copings and apex cross. Interior: C18 fielded-panel pews and fragments of early glass in nave windows.
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SE 39 SE THORNTON LE BEANS MAIN STREET (west end, off) 2/69 Chapel of Ease 31.3.70 II Chapel of ease. 1770, refenestrated in late C19. Coursed squared stone, ashlar. Graduated stone slate roof. Nave with south porch, chancel. Nave: 3 bays. Central bay has gabled porch with arched opening, board door, stone coping. To left a single-light cusped flat-arched window; to right a similar 2-light window, both C19. Stone coping. Offset bellcote at west end with gable. Chancel: single-light C19 window; east window of 2 arched cusped lights. Stone coping with gable cross. Interior: C18 fielded-panel pews and fragments of early glass in nave windows.
Listing NGR: SE3955690383
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332214
- 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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