Capella Extra Portas With Attached Walls
CAPELLA EXTRA PORTAS WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ABBEY APPROACH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1292871
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Capella Extra Portas With Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- CAPELLA EXTRA PORTAS WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ABBEY APPROACH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1292871
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Capella Extra Portas With Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAPELLA EXTRA PORTAS WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ABBEY APPROACH
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:
- CAPELLA EXTRA PORTAS WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ABBEY APPROACH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD2180171980
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD27SW ABBEY APPROACH
708-1/4/5 Capella Extra Portas with attached
06/05/76 walls
GV I
Ruined chapel. c1300. Red ashlar sandstone, no roof. Single
vessel, 5x1 bays. Plinth. Moulded string course, at impost of
round-arched south door, continues to right across buttresses
between former 3-light windows with pointed cusped arches,
geometrical tracery removed. Bay 4 occupied by broad gabled
projection (rear of sedilia). To left of south door the string
course rises over the scar of a wing wall of which only the
foundations remain. West door has keeled round arch with
carved hood stops; niche and string course over. Buttresses
flank ruined east window. INTERIOR: triple sedilia with one
trefoil shaft remaining, the arched recesses beneath hooded
panel with gablets and torch finials; piscina and credence to
left. Statue base to left of east window. Situated outside the
abbey precinct and used by dependents of the monastery and
others who did not normally worship in the abbey church (qv).
Adjoining archways listed separately (qv).
(Dickenson J C: Furness Abbey: London: 1987-: 11).
Listing NGR: SD2180171980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388373
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dickinson, J C, Furness Abbey, (1987), 11
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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