St Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel
ST SAVIOURGATE UNITARIAN CHAPEL, ST SAVIOURGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256710
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- St Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- ST SAVIOURGATE UNITARIAN CHAPEL, ST SAVIOURGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256710
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- St Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST SAVIOURGATE UNITARIAN CHAPEL, ST SAVIOURGATE
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 SAVIOURGATE UNITARIAN CHAPEL, ST SAVIOURGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 60621 51975
Details
YORK
SE6051NE ST SAVIOURGATE 1112-1/17/996 (North West side) 14/06/54 St Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel
GV II*
Formerly known as: St Saviourgate Chapel ST SAVIOURGATE. Presbyterian chapel, now Unitarian. 1692; refenestrated, re-roofed, refitted and vestry added 1851-60; restored 1990-91. C19 work by George Fowler Jones. MATERIALS: orange-brown brick in stretcher bond, with brick doorcase and dressings; timber guttering on paired modillions; slate roofs with stone copings. PLAN: cruciform with low crossing tower. EXTERIOR: main entrance in south arm through panelled double doors in raised brick surround with plain cornice, flanked by inserted 1-pane sash windows: round-arched window in raised surround over door. Both returns and south faces of east and west arms have similar windows in flush surrounds, those in flanking arms over panelled double doors with flat arches. Windows are round-headed margin-glazed sashes. North, east and west arms are gabled and have 2-course brick bands at eaves level and blocked oeil-de-boeuf openings in gable ends; roof of south arm is hipped. Crossing tower has pyramidal roof and two blocked window openings with flat arches of brick to south face; east and west faces have single louvred openings. INTERIOR: largely refitted C19, with C18 octagonal pulpit. Ceilings mostly C19, although the north room retains its original plaster barrel vault and roof timbers above. Monuments include many simple white marble wall tablets. Chapel is important for its cruciform plan, and notable as the earliest surviving nonconformist chapel in York. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 55-56).
Listing NGR: SE6062151975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464649
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 55-56
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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