Wellington School War Memorial Chapel
WELLINGTON SCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL CHAPEL, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246218
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Wellington School War Memorial Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- WELLINGTON SCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL CHAPEL, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246218
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Wellington School War Memorial Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLINGTON SCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL CHAPEL, SOUTH STREET
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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:
- WELLINGTON SCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL CHAPEL, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wellington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST1400420315
Details
WELLINGTON
ST1420 SOUTH STREET
759/2/10004 Wellington School
06-DEC-00 Wellington School War Memorial Chapel
II
School chapel. 1928-31; by C. H. Biddulph-Pinchard. Irregular bond red brick with stone dressings. Flat roof concealed behind parapet.
PLAN: Rectangular single-cell chapel with altar at the west end and choir stalls and organ in gallery over entrance vestibule at east end.
Perpendicular Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: Six-bay north and south sides with 3-light Perpendicular traceried 4-centred arch windows with buttresses between with tall crocketed pinnacles; moulded stone plinth weathering and string below parapet. The west [liturgical east] end has a larger 5-light 2-centred arch window with reticulated tracery, flanked by buttresses and a statue niche above surmounted by a stone cross. At east [liturgical west] end a Tudor arch door in a moulded stone frame, with a stone plaque above and flanked by iron lamps.
INTERIOR: Richly decorated interior with finely traceried carved wooden wall panels with elaborately decorated canopies made of moulded plaster, all painted and guilded, the panels with names of old boys killed in the First World War. Similarly decorated galleried choir stalls and organ loft over entrance and canopied reredos. Carved stone altar. Carved bench ends and carved traceried stall fronts. Roof has series of carved and moulded tie-beams on corbels, supporting a panelled roof with moulded ribs, all painted and guilded. The carving by F.J. Hunt of Henlade, Taunton.
SOURCES Horwood, D., Welling ton School Chapel, from the beginning.
Listing NGR: ST1400420315
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 June 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487378
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Horwood, D, Wellington School Chapel from the beginning, ()
Websites
WELLINGTON SCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL CHAPEL, accessed 16 June 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/72667
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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