St Margarets Chapel
ST MARGARETS CHAPEL, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245723
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Margarets Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARGARETS CHAPEL, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245723
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Margarets Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARGARETS CHAPEL, LONDON 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:
- ST MARGARETS CHAPEL, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Gloucester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84114 18909
Details
SO8418NW
844-1/10/191
23/01/52
GLOUCESTER
LONDON ROAD
(South side)
St Margaret's Chapel
GV
II*
The chapel of the Leper Hospital of St Margaret and St
Sepulchre founded prior to 1163, now the chapel of the United
Almshouses (qv). The original chapel rebuilt early C14,
altered in C15; restored in 1846, and in 1875 by Waller and
Son with added vestry, roof renewed and new fittings. Squared
rubble incorporating C12 masonry in west wall, some lias
rubble, stone slate roof with coped gables. Nave of two bays
entered through west doorway, and a smaller chancel of one-bay
with added vestry on the south side.
EXTERIOR: nave has chamfered offset plinth; buttresses with
weathered offsets are set diagonally at the corners; in the
west wall an arched doorway with moulded jambs and a single
light window with a foiled head under the lintel; in a niche
in the upper part of the gable a sanctus bell; in each bay on
the north and south sides a C15 two-light window with
Perpendicular tracery; a doorway in the second bay of the
north wall; in the east wall of the chancel a restored C14
three-light window with foiled heads and quatrefoil tracery;
in the south wall two lancet windows with trefoiled heads and
in the north wall a similar lancet to the east of the C19
vestry.
INTERIOR: chancel arch of two chamfered orders, piscinas with
moulded arched heads in nave and chancel; C19 open roof with
king-post truss; stained glass probably by Clayton and Bell.
A very rare example of a medieval hospital chapel sited on the
major eastern approach to the city.
Listing NGR: SO8411418909
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472319
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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