Brearton Chapel
BREARTON CHAPEL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315349
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brearton Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- BREARTON CHAPEL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315349
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brearton Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BREARTON CHAPEL, MAIN 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:
- BREARTON CHAPEL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brearton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 32354 61025
Details
BREARTON MAIN STREET SE 36 SW (south side)
2/4 Brearton Chapel
II
Chapel. 1836. For Thomas Duncombe of Copgrove. Magnesian limestone, gritstone dressings, purple slate roof. Shallow plinth. 3 bays with entrance at west gable end and bellcote above. 4 steps up to paired 2-panel doors under ogee door-head with hoodmould. Central stonework projects slightly and is carried up as a shallow pilaster to the gabled bellcote which has a crocketted finial. 3 flat-headed windows of paired cusped lights under a square hoodmould to north and south sides; similar 3-light east window. Chamfered eaves cornice, shaped kneelers and gable copings; short corniced stack at east end. Interior: 3 steps down in north-east corner to a partitioned-off vestry room which has a small fireplace with plain surround against the east wall. Reading desk and pulpit in the south- east corner. Small octagonal font in south-west corner. 4 roof trusses with alternating plain and cusped timberwork. A wooden notice above the west door records that the chapel was erected in 1836 and contained 150 sittings, the minister was Aaron Manby and the Chapel Warden was Frances Reynard.
Listing NGR: SE3235461025
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331507
- 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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