St Peters Convent Chapel
ST PETERS CONVENT CHAPEL, DOVECOTE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313233
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Peters Convent Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- ST PETERS CONVENT CHAPEL, DOVECOTE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313233
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Peters Convent Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST PETERS CONVENT CHAPEL, DOVECOTE LANE
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 PETERS CONVENT CHAPEL, DOVECOTE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 29387 18572
Details
SE2918 HORBURY DOVECOTE LANE (south side)
9/9 St. Peter's Convent Chapel
GV II
Convent chapel. 1869-71 by Henry Woodyer, the north transept possibly later; the south chapel dated 1898. Red brick with yellow, sandstone ashlar bands offsets and dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Nave of approx. 6 slender bays with apsidal east end and north and south transepts, the latter with the 1898 3-bay chapel extending eastwards. The building is buttressed and has tall, slender lancets, at high level, with single roll mouldings except to the apse where the mouldings are of 2 orders. The windows in the centre of the apse are shorter where they step-up over a relief crucifix in brick. On the south side is a lean-to addition, with arcaded brick moulding, forming a corridor. The south transept has a projecting chimney breast which crosses from the right to the centre using corbels and rises to a small, lateral, diagonally- set stack at the half-hipped roof. The 1898 chapel has 2-light windows with Decorated tracery and a flat roof. The north transept is gabled and has a wheel window in the apex. The west gable has a larger wheel window. The building is attached at the west end to further convent buildings (q.v.). Interior: wooden screen at west end with small gallery above for the organ. Steeply-pitched arch-braced and arch wind-braced roof, semi-domed over the apse with radiating ribs. Early English Gothic arcading at high level on engaged colonnettes. The south transept is reached through a cusped doorway and has imported early oak panelling. The gallery above has the arcading continuing across its front. Stained glass by Powell (designed by Bell) 1871, and the west window by Kempe 1888-94 (Pevsner). The east windows have abstract coloured glass in the modern idiom. N. Pevsner. The Buildings of England. 1967.
Listing NGR: SE2938718572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
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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