Roman Catholic Chapel of St Leonard
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF ST LEONARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1316353
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Chapel of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF ST LEONARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1316353
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Chapel of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF ST LEONARD
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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF ST LEONARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stutton with Hazlewood
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 44921 39795
Details
STUTTON WITH HAZLEWOOD HAZLEWOOD CASTLE ESTATE SE 43 NW 6/57 Roman Catholic Chapel of Saint Leonard 3.2.67 GV I Roman Catholic Chapel. Founded 1167 by Sir Walter Vavasour, but present building c1283-5 for Sir William Vavasour with later additions and alterations including bellcote dated 1680 and mid-C18 refurbishing of interior probably by John Carr. Dressed magnesian limestone with grey slate roof. Continuous 4-bay nave and chancel with west bellcote, south porch and south vestry. Plinth. Quoins. Offset buttresses to bays and angles. Entrance to south porch a chamfered pointed arch under hood-mould surmounted by figure of Saint Leonard. Traceried plank door. Within a double- chamfered, pointed-arched opening with probable C15 traceried and studded door with later grill inserted. Priest's door to chancel, now blocked, within chamfered surround. Similar blocked door to north side under hood- mould. 2-light windows with Y-tracery and to west end. Blocked east window under hood-mould. South side shows evidence of earlier windows in straight- headed surrounds. Stepped eaves course. Ashlar coping. Twin bellcote to west end. Eroded cross to apex at east end. Interior: colour-washed walls. Dentil and modillion cornice. Coved ceiling. East end has pairs of Corinthian columns on carved plinths supporting frieze and broken segmental pediment with dentil and modillion cornice. To west end a gallery on Roman Doric columns with frieze with triglyphs and vase-on-upturned-vase balustrade. Trefoil-headed piscina. Trefoil-headed niche. C15 stone alms box which has iron doors and hasps carved with pairs of bearded heads. Trefoil-headed stoup. Carved niche for bell. Monuments. 2 early C14 tomb recesses with effigies of knights, one rather damaged, to Sir William Vavasour d1313 and his son, Sir Walter Vavasour, d1315-16. Further Tudor- arched recess. Large wall monument to Sir Thomas Vavasour, d1632, and his wife Ursula d1649 and their 9 children retains decapitated kneeling figures of children but large kneeling figures are reputedly of John Vavasour d1609 and his wife Eleanor. Baroque monument to Sir Walter d1731 and Dame Jane with 5 disarranged figures. Medieval tomb stones with incised crosses in nave and porch. Slab with death's head to John Price d1738. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, pp 256-7; Longley K, Hazlewood Chapel, A History and Guide; Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 1985, Vol 13, pp 537- 554; Country Life, 26 December 1957, pp 1426-9; Calendar of Patent Rolls 1281-1290, p 237, 14 Edward I, Membrane 14, 29 April 1286 - Westminster.
Listing NGR: SE4492139795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326442
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Calendar of Patent Rolls 1281-1290, (), 237
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 256-7
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 13, (1985), 537-554
Country Life in 26 December, (1957), 1426-9
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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