Chapel 30 metres south west of Goldings
Chapel 30 metres south west of Goldings, North Road, Hertford
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268816
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel 30 metres south west of Goldings
- Statutory Address:
- Chapel 30 metres south west of Goldings, North Road, Hertford
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268816
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel 30 metres south west of Goldings
- Statutory Address 1:
- Chapel 30 metres south west of Goldings, North Road, Hertford
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:
- Chapel 30 metres south west of Goldings, North Road, Hertford
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 30942 14175
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 January 2025 to reformat the text to current standards.
TL3014
817-1/5/363
HERTFORD
NORTH ROAD (west side)
Goldings
Chapel 30 metres south west of Goldings
GV
II
Chapel, now used as sports hall. 1923, architect Walter Godfrey of Wratten and Godfrey. Red brick, English bond with blue diaper patterns on end elevations, limestone base and dressings, yellow sandstone windows, slated roof behind brick parapet with stone copings, and parapeted gables at ends, lower ends with Dutch profile, and octagonal turrets. Mixed free Gothic and Jacobean styles, as on the main house. Side elevations divided by buttresses into six bays, each with recessed three-light four-central arched windows with traceried cusped trefoil heads. Projecting porches with hipped and gabled roofs, stone mullioned windows, and semicircular arched doors.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the architect Walter Godfrey (1881-1961) was articled to James Williams, successor to George Devey, who had designed the new Goldings mansion in 1870. In partnership with E Livingstone Wratten he carried on Devey's practice after William's death in 1905. Goldings was sold by Reginald Abel Smith, son of the builder of Goldings to Dr Barnados Homes in 1921, who opened it as the William Baker Technical School in 1922. The chapel was built to enable staff and pupils to worship without the walk into Hertford. The foundation stone was laid by Mrs Burnett Smith, Deputy Mayoress of Hertford on 28 June 1923. The property was sold to Herts County Council in 1969.
(Hertfordshire Countryside: Campbell D: Goldings: a curious Hertfordshire Mansion: 34-5, 38; Gray AS: Edwardian Architecture: London: 1985-: 196).
Listing NGR: TL3094214175
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461405
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gray, A S, Edwardian Architecture A Biographical Dictionary, (1985), 196
Hertfordshire Countryside in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1973), 34-35 38
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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