Ruins of Lady Chapel on North Bank of River Wansbeck
RUINS OF LADY CHAPEL ON NORTH BANK OF RIVER WANSBECK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206590
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Lady Chapel on North Bank of River Wansbeck
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF LADY CHAPEL ON NORTH BANK OF RIVER WANSBECK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206590
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Lady Chapel on North Bank of River Wansbeck
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF LADY CHAPEL ON NORTH BANK OF RIVER WANSBECK
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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:
- RUINS OF LADY CHAPEL ON NORTH BANK OF RIVER WANSBECK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pegswood
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22148 86025
Details
PEGSWOOD NZ 28 NW NZ 22148620 2/42 Ruins of Lady Chapel on north bank of River Wansbeck II Chapel, mid C14 probably rebuilt in later C15. Squared stone with cut dressings. Single cell, only c.7 x 4 metres internally. Walls survive up to 4 courses high; jambs of doorway, with drawbar hole, in centre of west end. Carved shield with arms of Ogle and Bertram quartering Kirkby, removed in early C19 to Bothal Castle, imply construction by Robert 1st Lord Ogle (d.1363). C18 engravings show some late C15 features.
(Relief shield with bearings carved on rock face 12 metres north-east of the chapel probably carved by a Morpeth curate early in C19).
Rev. J. Hodgson, History of Northumberland Part II Vol. II (1832) p.108.
Listing NGR: NZ2214886025
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238957
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hodgson, J, A History of Northumberland in A History of Northumberland Part 2, Vol. 2, (1832), 108
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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