Chantry House
CHANTRY HOUSE, NORTH CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245840
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Chantry House
- Statutory Address:
- CHANTRY HOUSE, NORTH CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245840
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Chantry House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHANTRY HOUSE, NORTH CHURCH STREET
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:
- CHANTRY HOUSE, NORTH CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bakewell
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK2153768518
Details
BAKEWELL
SK2168 NORTH CHURCH STREET
831-1/4/143 (South side)
07/01/70 Chantry House
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH LANE
(East side)
Chantry House)
GV II
House. Medieval origin rebuilt c1780. Deeply-coursed sandstone
and limestone rubble; Welsh slate and concrete tile roof.
L-plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with cellar. 4-window range to entrance
front and 3-window range to right return facing North Church
Street.
Entrance front: bay 3 has part-glazed 6-panel door in porch
with trellised front and swept leaded roof. Projecting stone
sills to ashlar surrounds: 8/8 sash to left of porch and two
6/6 sashes over. Bay one has 2-light, square-faced mullioned
windows with 4/4 sashes. Bay 4 with 8/8 sash to each floor;
arcaded plaque to gable; ashlar copings. Stone end stack on
left; ridge stack; rendered stack on ridge behind bay 4 gable.
Rear: irregular masonry with C17 panelled door now painted and
partly glazed.
Right return: rubble limestone with battered plinth and large
quoins. Steps at left end and winding steps with iron handrail
to doorway on right. Large tripartite sashes with glazing bars
cut through a chamfered string course; a Medieval carving of
what appears to be a horse's head projects from wall above.
Tripartite sash and 2 4/8 sashes to first floor.
INTERIOR: chamfered, quoined entrance to arched cellar. Early
C19 staircase with turned newel and square rods; earlier
balusters to landing.
HISTORY: an extensive documentary collection with owner
indicates that the site at least has been associated with the
priest engaged by the Chantry of Our Lady since the C12 or
possibly before.
The Chantry property can be traced through to the Dissolution
of the Chantries in 1547 when Sir Richard Manners purchased
the freehold. There are specific references to the house in
C17 documents relating to the rebuilding of churchyard walls.
In 1781 a major rebuilding scheme prompted the Society of
Antiquaries to publish a drawing of the early fabric; this
shows a house of the same form with mullioned windows and the
suggestion of a round-arched doorway to first floor in the
manner of a first-floor hall house; also shown is a gable
plaque with chalice and missal framed by ancient lettering.
(Journal of the Bakewell and District Historical Society:
1990-: 9-12; Collection of Archival Documents).
Listing NGR: SK2153768518
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468183
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Journal of the Bakewell and District Historical Society in Collection of Archival Documents, (1990), 9-12
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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