Chapel of St Andrew Ribston Hall
CHAPEL OF ST ANDREW RIBSTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1294221
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST ANDREW RIBSTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1294221
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST ANDREW RIBSTON HALL
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST ANDREW RIBSTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Ribston with Walshford
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 39204 53755
Details
SE 35 SE
5/30
15.3.66
GREAT RIBSTON WITH WALSHFORD
RIBSTON PARK
Chapel of St. Andrew, Ribston Hall
GV
II*
Chapel of St. Andrew, attached to south-east end of Ribston Hall. C13 with
restorations 1700 and C19. Early work probably by the Knights Templars,
later alteration and restoration by Sir Harry Goodricke and the Dent family.
Limestone and sandstone coursed rubble, sandstone quoins. Flat roof. Nave
and chancel in one range of 4 bays. Repositioned doorway, chamfered, with
hood-moulds and head-stops in 2-storey lean-to porch at east end of south
wall. A second similar (blocked) doorway towards west end of this wall.
Between the doors: a 2-light window with Reticulated tracery and square
hood-mould, flanked by gabled buttresses. East and west windows inserted
1820 and 1852, each of 3 lights. Battlemented parapet at east end, with
stair turret built into corner between the chapel and the Hall. Bulbous
finial on south-east corner. Parapet at west end pierced with quatrefoils
and bearing 2 finials. West wall also has 3 square recesses, one with a
much weathered coat of arms. Interior: entrance into the chapel from the
hall is at the west end of the north wall. Altar end and reredos have early
C18 panelling with scrolls and foliage in high relief. Memorials include
one on south wall to Sir Harry Goodricke who 'restored and embellished' the
chapel in 1700. Another (1652) to Richard Goodricke. Font with stem and
wide spiral-fluted bowl of c1700. The west window has painted glass which
is probably a copy of the New College window by Reynolds. The west window
is signed by Willement 1852. H. Speight refers to a commission signed to
dedicate and consecrate a new chapel at Ribston in 1444.
N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, 1959, p400.
H. Spei'ght, Nidderdale, 1894, p190.
Country Life, October 11th, 1973, pp 1050-3 and
October 18th, 1973, pp l142-5.
Listing NGR: SE3920453755
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330604
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Speight, H, Nidderdale, (1894), 190
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - The West Riding, (1959), 400
Country Life in 11 October, (1973), 1050-3
Country Life in 18 October, (1973)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,
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