Chapel of Royal Wolverhampton School
CHAPEL OF ROYAL WOLVERHAMPTON SCHOOL, PENN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201852
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of Royal Wolverhampton School
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ROYAL WOLVERHAMPTON SCHOOL, PENN ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14576/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201852
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of Royal Wolverhampton School
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ROYAL WOLVERHAMPTON SCHOOL, PENN 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:
- CHAPEL OF ROYAL WOLVERHAMPTON SCHOOL, PENN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 90669 97122
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO99NW PENN ROAD 895-1/5/34 (East side) 03/02/77 Chapel of Royal Wolverhampton School
GV II
Chapel. 1894-5. By F.T. Beck. Brick with blue brick diapering; ashlar dressings; slate roof. Cruciform plan. Windows with Perpendicular tracery; coped gables and embattled parapets. Chancel has offset angle buttresses and 5-light east window; organ loft to south has canted angle and lean-to roof; north vestry with square-headed 4-light east and 3-light north windows, west entrance; transepts have ashlar quoins and 4-light window to north, 3-light square-headed window below 2 windows of 2 lights to south; crossing lantern with traceried openings and ogival cupola with cross; nave has 3-light square-headed traceried windows with transoms between offset buttresses; 4-light west window over entrance with 3-centred head and paired doors; octagonal turret to south; south porch has panelled parapet over west entrance. INTERIOR: collar trusses on ogival braces to roof; reredos has relief of Last Supper; stalls have panelled fronts; windows have stained glass by C.E.Kempe, with 2 windows by Kempe and Tower, which form an important collection of Kempe's later work. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.323).
Listing NGR: SO9066997122
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378520
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 323
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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