St Bartholomews Chapel
ST BARTHOLOMEWS CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1268238
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Bartholomews Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- ST BARTHOLOMEWS CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1268238
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Bartholomews Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST BARTHOLOMEWS CHAPEL, HIGH 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:
- ST BARTHOLOMEWS CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 75249 67892
Details
CHATHAM
TQ7567NW HIGH STREET 762-1/3/15 (South side) 29/10/52 St Bartholomew's Chapel
GV II*
Chapel, hospital Chapel, now chapel of ease. Founded 1078 by Gundulph as part of St Bartholomew's Hospital, completed c1120, altered C13, nave partly rebuilt 1725, restored and N aisle added 1896 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. MATERIALS: flint and rubble with limestone dressings and a tiled roof. PLAN/STYLE: Norman apse, Early English N chancel, chapel and nave, Early English Gothic Revival style N aisle and SE vestry. EXTERIOR: apse has a half conical roof with 3 round-arched C11 windows with incised zig-zag decoration, and taller chancel gable. N chapel gable has tufa quoins, 2 lancets and a quatrefoil, with exposed truss, and 2-window N side. C19 N aisle has 3 pairs of round-arched windows and sill band with low buttresses between the right and middle pairs and to the right. W end has gabled nave and lower N aisle with exposed trusses, each with 2 lancets, the aisle with a quatrefoil above, and a buttress between. Mid C19 coped, gabled porch with a 2-centre chamfered arch to a similar W door with strap hinges. S elevation to nave has 2 small flat-headed windows, and a lower gabled SE vestry with a W arched door and paired E lancets. To the W end of the nave ridge is a steep square pyramidal spirelet with swept eaves. INTERIOR: chancel has a C13 round-arched sedilia with attached black marble columns, and a round chancel arch; vestry has a carved C12 piscina set on the top of a column with moulded base and capital, attributed to Hugh de Trottescliffe; restored round arches to N chapel and chancel arch: 3-bay nave with round columns with waterleaf capitals and checked arches. C19 roof has ashlar posts and collars. HISTORY: the only surviving part of the former St Bartholomew's Hospital, built outside the East Gate by Bishop Gundulph, and associated with his works at Rochester Cathedral. Used as a dwelling after the Reformation, the chapel was bought back and restored in 1725. The cloister lay to the S. Group value with the surrounding walls (qv). (The Buildings of England: Newman J: West Kent and the Weald:
London: 1976-: 202; Greenwood EJ: The Hospital of St Bartholomew Rochester: Rochester: 1962-).
Listing NGR: TQ7524967892
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462096
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Greenwood, E J, The Hospital of St Bartholomew Rochester, (1962)
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1976), 202
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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