Red House School Chapel
RED HOUSE SCHOOL CHAPEL, HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190840
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Red House School Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- RED HOUSE SCHOOL CHAPEL, HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190840
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Red House School Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED HOUSE SCHOOL CHAPEL, HALL LANE
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:
- RED HOUSE SCHOOL CHAPEL, HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Moor Monkton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 52978 57081
Details
SE 55 NW MOOR MONKTON HALL LANE (south side)
2/8 Red House School Chapel (formerly listed as 'fled 8.3.52 House School including Chapel")
GV II *
Chapel. Early C17, consecrated in 1618. For the Slingsby family. Brick in English garden wall bond, ashlar quoins and dressings, Welsh slate roof. Chapel and ante-chapel, rectangular on plan. 2 storeys, open to roof, 3 bays. South facade: quoins to right. 2-light double-chamfered mullion window to left. First floor: three cinquefoiled 3-light windows in square- headed frames. Stepped eaves course. West gable end: round-arched door frame with imposts and keystone, containing original panelled door. Inscription in brick over reads "Pro termino vitae sic non nobis". East gable end: large 3-light Perpendicular window possibly inserted from an earlier building. Interior contains much original carved furniture. Earliest features include the pulpit, poppyhead bench ends, panelled pews, screen to ante-chapel with splat balusters, and consoles supporting gallery. The closed string staircase to the gallery with its bulbous balusters, elaborately carved newels and carved finials symbolic of the family and friends of Sir Henry Slingsby originally formed the main staircase of the Red House. Later C17 altar rail. Pevsner N, Yorkshire: The West Riding, second edition, 1967. Wood G B, The Chapel at Red House, Moor Monkton, Yorkshire, Country Life, Oct 27 1944.
Listing NGR: SE5297857081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331650
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
Country Life in 27 October, (1944)
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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