ST CRISPIN HOSPITAL CHAPEL

ST CRISPIN HOSPITAL CHAPEL, BERRYWOOD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249273
Date first listed:: 17-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: ST CRISPIN HOSPITAL CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: ST CRISPIN HOSPITAL CHAPEL, BERRYWOOD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249273
Date first listed:: 17-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: ST CRISPIN HOSPITAL CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: ST CRISPIN HOSPITAL CHAPEL, BERRYWOOD ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ST CRISPIN HOSPITAL CHAPEL, BERRYWOOD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Upton
National Grid Reference:: SP 71458 61222

Details

UPTON BERRYWOOD ROAD SP 7160 NW (south side) 3/12 St Crispin Hospital Chapel GV II

Chapel. 1887 by Robert Griffiths of Stafford; minor C20 alterations. Rock-faced ironstone in small rectangular blocks, limestone dressings and plain tile roofs. Chancel, vestry, organ chamber, aisled nave and south porch. Early Gothic style. Chancel has 3-light east window with large roundel to head, filled with 7 small roundels and hood mould. Single-light windows north and south with quatrefoils to heads. Organ chamber to south side has octagonal east window with plate tracery of 8 roundels surrounding 8-foiled central rounded; cinquefoiled rose window to south. Vestry to north side has 2-light east window with Y-tracery and roll-moulded east door with hood mould. 1-light cinquefoil-headed windows to north and porch with blocked round trefoil-headed door with hood mould and cusped 1-light window to east side. Nave has quatrefoil clerestory windows above aisles, which stop short of 2 western bays of nave and have 2-light windows with Y-tracery and geometrical tracery to alternate windows. Those to west ends of aisles have hood moulds. South door has chamfered arch, double-leaf door with ornamental hinges and hood mould. South porch has double-chamfered doorway with dog-toothed hood mould and cusped 1-light windows to east and west. West end of nave or narthex has 1-light windows at high level north and south with quatrefoils to heads and polygonal stair turret to south-west. Turret serves gallery and has roll-moulded door to south, arcaded upper storey, blank to east and with small 1-light chamfered windows to other sides and pyramidal roof with wrought-iron finial. West front of nave has 4-bay arcade with shafts, moulded bases and capitals and hood mould framing pair of central doors, roll- moulded and with caernarvon-arched heads and blank quatrefoils above, flanked by lancet windows. 3-light west window with 8-foiled roundel to head and hood mould. Bell-cote to gable with dog-toothed arch framing bell and tall gable with wrought-iron finial and weather-vane. Chamfered plinth, string courses and chamfered stone eaves. Stone-coped gables with kneelers. Foliated stone cross to chancel gable, wrought-iron cross to east gable of nave. Offset angle buttresses and offset buttresses between bays. Interior: Chancel has raised sanctuary with ornamental tiled reredos and side walls, encaustic tiled floors and scissor truss roof. Nave has 4-bay arcades with circular columns, chamfered plinths, moulded capitals and double-chamfered arches. West gallery with rooms below either side of entrance passages said to have been formerly used for observing patients' behaviour. Arch-braced collar truss roof and encaustic tiled floors. Complete scheme of polychromatic decoration and wall paintings of historical, biblical and legendary figures with portrait heads of well-known local residents and members of staff, by H Bird and G H B Holland of 1953. Early C18 small veined white marble octagonal font with moulded bowl on baluster, moulded plinth and black marble base. Polygonal stone pulpit with timber handrail to steps. Complete set of pitch pine pews, stalls and desks. Organ of 1905 in painted case. (Buildings of England, Northants, 1973, p385).

Listing NGR: SP7145861222

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 431359
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 385

Legal

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