Litten Chapel
Litten Chapel, Newtown Road, Newbury, RG14 7BB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210610
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Litten Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- Litten Chapel, Newtown Road, Newbury, RG14 7BB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210610
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Litten Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Litten Chapel, Newtown Road, Newbury, RG14 7BB
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:
- Litten Chapel, Newtown Road, Newbury, RG14 7BB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 46938 66605
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/01/2020
SU 4666 NE
7/132
NEWBURY
NEWTOWN ROAD (west side)
Litten Chapel
[Formerly listed as Litten Chapel (Part of the Newbury Commercial School). Previously listed under Argyle Road]
29.9.50
GV
II*
Early C16 remains of the chapel of the old hospital of St Bartholomew. Attached on west side to Litten House, now the Newbury Commercial School. Single storey rectangular building shortened at the east end in circa 1825 when Newtown Road was widened under the Newbury and Speenhamland Improvement Act. A modern brick extension has been added to the north-west corner of the building with a catslide roof. Tiled roof. Flint rubble walls and brick east gable end. Bath stone elements. Each side wall originally with two windows; on north side each with two cinque-foiled, four-centred lights with spandrels under a square head with label (the north-west window converted for use as doorway in 1947); south-west window of two plain, four-centred lights in a square head (the south-east window replaced by a modern arched doorway with a hood mould). East window with six arched lights of 1825. Modern doorway from house.
Interior with two richly-carved and moulded queen-post trusses, for which the tie-beams have been removed.
Listing NGR: SU4693866605
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395201
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newbury Buildings Past and Present, (1973), 11 12
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 132
Berkshire Archaeological Journal in Berkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 39, (1935), 44 50
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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