CHAPEL IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD

CHAPEL IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, THE VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1221896
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, THE VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1221896
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, THE VILLAGE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, THE VILLAGE

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District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Prestbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ9008676902

Details

SJ 97 NW PRESTBURY C.P. THE VILLAGE (East Side)

6/219 Chapel in St.Peter's Churchyard

14/4/1967 GV II Chapel: c.1150 but rebuilt and restored 1747 for Sir William Meredith. Ashlar buff sandstone with Kerridge stone-slate roof. Simple 2-bay nave and lower 1-bay chancel. West doorway is surviving C12 work. Pair of columns with scrolled capitals have 3 semi-circular arches with raised heads, zig zags and pellets respectively. Tympanum has figure of Christ in Majesty (now badly worn) above a pair of studded oak doors. Above the corbel table are 7 now defaced figures, said to represent the Trinity, St.Peter, Richard I and figures of church and state. A plaque in a rusticated surround records in Latin the restoration. "SACELLUM HOC ANTIQUISSIMUM UT PERHIBETUR HVIUS PAROCHIAE ORATORIUM VETUSTATE RUINOSUM UNA IAM PRIDEM PARTE COLLAPSA OMNI FERE ALTERA COLLAPASCENTE NE PRISCAE PIETATIS VENERABILE MONUMENTUM FUNDITUS CORRUERIT SUMPTIBUS SUIS RESTITUIT G.M.B. AD MDCCXLVII". There is an elliptical light in the gable. A simple plinth goes around the chapel and there are 2 round headed lights in the nave and one in the chancel. East window is a circular light. Interior: Windows are in slight embrasures. Rebated semi-circular chancel arch over 3 steps to raised chancel. Altar table in semi-circular headed recess. 3 further plaques in Latin in the chancel and one over nave door refer to the reconstruction.

Listing NGR: SJ9008676902

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Legacy System number:: 413839
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.