Sandbeck Chapel
SANDBECK CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192905
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sandbeck Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- SANDBECK CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192905
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sandbeck Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SANDBECK CHAPEL
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:
- SANDBECK CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Maltby
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 56889 90333
Details
MALTBY SANDBECK PARK SK59SE 4/60 Sandbeck Chapel GV II Private chapel to Sandbeck Park. 1869. By Benjamin Ferrey for the 9th Earl of Scarbrough. Rock-faced magnesian limestone, graduated slate roof. 4-bay nave with north porch and apsidal chancel. In High Victorian Gothic style with geometrical tracery. Nave, north side: chamfered plinth, offset buttresses between bays. Gabled porch on right with shafted responds to pointed arch with hoodmould, gable with cross. Other bays: string course beneath 2-light windows with cusped lights and trefoils beneath pointed arches with hoodmoulds; stone gutter; gable copings with west cross and sanctus bellcote; 1 ridge ventilator. West window in the farm of a wheel with diagonal shafts and trefoils. South side of nave altered in 1954 on removal of service wing which formed link to Sandbeck Park (house) (q.v.). Chancel: lower, 2 lancet windows to north and south, single lights to sides of apse; all recessed with side shafts having foliage-carved capitals and hoodmoulds. Eaves corbel table to hipped roof with iron cross to apex and tile ridge cresting. Interior: nave bays divided by pointed arches set on shafts rising from carved-head corbels; above the arches are short columns to the purlins and geometrical, openwork roof trusses. West bay has corbelled balcony with triple lancet openings beneath an ashlar balustrade pierced by cusped and foiled openings. Chancel: chancel arch has pointed moulded arch with shafted responds set on semi-octagonal corbels; encaustic-tiled floor; blind arcading set round the apse with shafts and carved capitals to pointed arches, shafts rising to carved cornice and vault ribs of painted ceiling. Contemporary pews, light fittings, and stained glass. Coloured sketches and correspondence from Benjamin Ferrey survive at Sandbeck Park (house).
Listing NGR: SK5688990333
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335935
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 South 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.
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