Shrewsbury School Chapel
SHREWSBURY SCHOOL CHAPEL, ASHTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271376
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Shrewsbury School Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- SHREWSBURY SCHOOL CHAPEL, ASHTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271376
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Shrewsbury School Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHREWSBURY SCHOOL CHAPEL, ASHTON ROAD
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:
- SHREWSBURY SCHOOL CHAPEL, ASHTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shrewsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 48531 12087
Details
SHREWSBURY
SJ4812SE ASHTON ROAD 653-1/14/87 (North West side) 19/09/72 Shrewsbury School Chapel
GV II
School chapel. 1887. Sir Arthur Blomfield. Rock faced red sandstone with gold sandstone dressings and plain tiled roof. Nave with western narthex and chancel with chapels north and south of chancel. EXTERIOR: west front with narthex linking 2 polygonal turrets, and plate-traceried triple-stepped lancet window, with Y-tracery in the outer lights, and low relief roundels in the spandrels. Nave divided into 5 bays by buttresses: shallow north and south gabled porches, and stepped triple lancet windows with hoodmoulds over. Arcaded lancets in 2 tiers with rose window over, in north and south walls of chapels, more richly decorated to south. Tower in eastern angle of chapel and chancel to south, octagonal with traceried bell chamber lights. Triple lancet east window, with quatrefoil panels between the lights. INTERIOR: single-span keeled roof over aisleless nave, with wrought-iron trusses springing from angel corbels. Western gallery, incorporating in screen C17 panelling removed from old school building (Library, Castle Gates (qv)). Pews and dado panelling installed in the 1890s. Steeply arched Early English chancel arch with clustered shafts now painted, but formerly of exposed black Purbeck marble and white stone. Sedilia and reredos in chancel, the reredos with inlaid coloured marble, and low relief in alabaster. Paired arches to chapels each side, one containing organ, the other a gallery. STAINED GLASS: south and east windows by Kempe, employing medieval narrative style for lives of saints, scenes from the history of the school.
Listing NGR: SJ4853112087
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455074
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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