The Chapel, Bembridge School

THE CHAPEL, BEMBRIDGE SCHOOL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268494
Date first listed:
09-May-1996
List Entry Name:
The Chapel, Bembridge School
Statutory Address:
THE CHAPEL, BEMBRIDGE SCHOOL
Bembridge
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268494
Date first listed:
09-May-1996
List Entry Name:
The Chapel, Bembridge School
Statutory Address 1:
THE CHAPEL, BEMBRIDGE SCHOOL

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE CHAPEL, BEMBRIDGE SCHOOL

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

District:
Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bembridge
National Grid Reference:
SZ 64130 86723

Details

SZ 68 NW BEMBRIDGE HILL WAY

2/10005 The Chapel, Bembridge
School

GV II

School chapel. 1931-3; by W.A. Harvey and H.G. Wicks; extended 1961-2. Buff-coloured brick in stretcher bond. Clay plain tile roof. PLAN: Rectangular nave with aisle-posts as the only interruption to one large space. At the liturgical east [west] end an extra bay was added in 1961-2 and at the liturgical west [east] end a tower under which is the entrance with a gallery above. Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: Large roof carried down over low aisle walls with big brick buttresses with set-offs between plain 3-light windows with leaded panes. The roof is gabled at the liturgical east end and at the opposite end it is hipped with integral north and south porches clasping the big, slightly battered tower, its plain parapet set back and with plain windows, mostly replaced; the porches and the doorway at the base of the tower have plain round arches. Over the tower doorway a relief in stone of St George and the Dragon, by Alec Miller, 1949.

INTERIOR: The nave is one large space open to the timber queen-post roof structure, with aisle-posts with curved braces to the tie-beams. Brick round arch in the tower with balcony. The pews, like choir-stalls, face inwards. Dado panelling. Many of the fittings and decorations are the work of former members of the school and some stained glass by Edward Woore. SOURCE: Buildings of England, page 732.

Listing NGR: SZ6413086723

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Legacy System number:
461773
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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