Former School and Chapel
FORMER SCHOOL AND CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316798
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former School and Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER SCHOOL AND CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316798
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former School and Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER SCHOOL AND CHAPEL
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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:
- FORMER SCHOOL AND CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckden
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 87055 81486
Details
SD 88 SE BUCKDEN OUGHTERSHAW
2/48 Former school and chapel
- II
School and chapel, now house. Dated 1856. Probably by John Ruskin for Charles Woodd, in memory of his wife Lydia Wilson Woodd. Coursed limestone and gritstone blocks in contrasting bands, graduated stone slate roof. A rectangular single-storey building with 3 windows on the south side and an entrance bay on the east end. East end: a massive round arch of 2 orders, with imposts and dripmoulding, provides a full-height porch. Within is a shouldered-arched board double door with large strap hinges decorated with elaborate leaf motifs. Flanking attached columns support the arch with contrasting coloured voussoirs and the tympanum below has a chi-rho symbol in relief and inscription: "LYDIA WILSON WOODD AT PAU 16 JUNE 1856 AGED 32". South side: 3 windows composed of paired round-headed lights with colonette. A bellcot with corbelled cover to right. Moulded stone guttering on plain brackets; shaped kneelers and gable coping with cross finials. West end: a 3-light window as south front, circular plaque with 4-petal motif to gable. The south and east walls are decorated with fossiliferous marble plaques of diamond, shield and circular shapes. Interior not inspected at resurvey. The building post-dates the publication of Ruskin's "The Stones of Venice" (1851 and 53). Ruskin made frequent visits to the north of England in the later 1850's and was aquainted with the Woodd family of Oughtershaw Hall. The family archives include letters from Ruskin regarding the school. In his "Stones of Venice", Ruskin emphasised the horizontal layering of masonry and the link with geology and advocated bold chamfers and outlines, with deep recessed openings. All these features are displayed in the school at Oughtershaw. R. Dixon and S. Muthesius, Victorian Architecture, 1978, p201. A. B. Woodd, personal communication.
Listing NGR: SD8705581486
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324635
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dixon, R, Muthesius, S, Victorian Architecture, (1978), 201
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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