St Michaels Cottages and Chapel
ST MICHAELS COTTAGES AND CHAPEL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293917
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Michaels Cottages and Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- ST MICHAELS COTTAGES AND CHAPEL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293917
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Michaels Cottages and Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MICHAELS COTTAGES AND CHAPEL, CHURCH 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 MICHAELS COTTAGES AND CHAPEL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Well
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 26801 82016
Details
WELL CHURCH STREET SE 28 SE (north side) 5/41 St Michaels Cottages and Chapel (formerly listed as Saint Michaels Hospital 5.5.52 Almshouses)
GV II
4 almshouses and chapel. 1758. Coursed squared stone, ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 12 bays with 2-bay chapel to left. Each almshouse of 3 bays with symmetrical facade, a central board door in surround with chamfered jambs, all windows 2-light with ovolo moulded mullions and plain stone surrounds. To each side of central 2 bays on the first floor are coat of arms, of the Nevill and Cecill of Burghley, families. Water pump attached to centre, with datestone above. Chapel has central moulded pointed-arched doorway with moulded imposts and board door. It is flanked by 2-light mullion windows with round heads to each light. Stone coping to either ends. 4 ridge stacks and end stack to right. History: the mullions, the chapel doorway and the chapel windows are of reused medieval and C16 stone. The Hospital Almshouses founded in 1342 were in Well Hall before 1758. VCH Vol I p357-361.
Listing NGR: SE2680282022
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332672
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 357-361
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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