Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, London Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245744
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, London Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245744
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, 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:
- Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, 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 84323 18988
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 31 August 2022 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SO8418NW
844-1/10/183
GLOUCESTER
LONDON ROAD (north side)
Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
(Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (North side) Remains of Chapel of St Mary Magdalene)
23/01/52
II*
Chancel of the chapel of the former leper hospital of St Mary Magdalene, now a disused chapel. Mid C12, altered in late C13; in 1861 the nave demolished and its south doorway reset in the infilled chancel arch, now the west wall of the chapel. Ashlar and squared rubble, tile roof. A small, end-gabled block.
EXTERIOR: the west wall with substantial lateral buttresses; the reset C12 semicircular arched doorway of two orders, the jambs with chamfered bases and chamfered imposts, the inner order of the arch of square section and the outer order decorated with a facing chevron moulding; in the north wall two blocked C13 lancet windows; in the east wall a C13 window with intersecting tracery.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but believed to have set in the floor the recumbent effigy of a lady, c1290. See also St Margaret's Chapel (qv).
Listing NGR: SO8432318988
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472311
- 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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