Spital Chapel of St James
SPITAL CHAPEL OF ST JAMES, ASHBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197039
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Spital Chapel of St James
- Statutory Address:
- SPITAL CHAPEL OF ST JAMES, ASHBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197039
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Spital Chapel of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPITAL CHAPEL OF ST JAMES, ASHBY ROAD
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:
- SPITAL CHAPEL OF ST JAMES, ASHBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Tamworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 20879 05023
Details
TAMWORTH
SK20NW ASHBY ROAD, Perrycrofts 670-1/2/37 (North side) 11/05/50 Spital Chapel of St. James
II*
Former chantry chapel; converted to barn at Reformation; dedicated for worship 1914. Mid to late C12 possibly on earlier foundations with C13 rebuilding and extensive restoration, 1909-14. Stone rubble and coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings; tile roofs. Small chancel and nave. Chancel has coped gable with kneelers, east window of round-headed lights with renewed mullions. Nave has round-headed north entrance with plain reveals and plank door, signs of blocked C12 entrance to left; early C13 pointed-arched south entrance, possibly ex situ or reconstructed, moulded arch of one order, shafts missing but shaft rings remain, and inner keeled rool moulding, plank door; window to right of 2 pointed lights has recess below, possibly blocked entrance; west wall rebuilt 1914, with 2 lancets. INTERIOR: C16/early C17 tie beam and arch-braced collar roofs with double purlins and some renewed members, ashlaring to chancel; round chancel arch with impost bands; chancel east wall has plaque recording restoration. C20 altar table with cusped arched panels, altar rail on timber posts. Records exist of a chantry or hospital founded by Sir Philip Marmion between 1266 and 1275; the building is believed to have served as a hospital at the time of the Black Death, 1349. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.277; Victoria County History: Staffordshire: Oxford: 1970-: P.294-6; Trans. of S. Staffs Archaeological and Historical Society: 2nd Report on Excavations at Tamworth Staffs 1968, Spital Chapel: 1968-1969; Wood H: Borough By Prescription: Tamworth: 1958-: P.86-7).
Listing NGR: SK2087905023
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386440
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1970), 294-6
Wood, H, Borough By Prescription Tamworth, (1958), 86-7
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 277
South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Transactions in South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Transactions, (1968)
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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