Kings Lee Chapel
KINGS LEE CHAPEL, ELLEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317926
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Lee Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS LEE CHAPEL, ELLEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317926
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Lee Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS LEE CHAPEL, ELLEL
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:
- KINGS LEE CHAPEL, ELLEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ellel
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 48170 53585
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/11/2014
SD 45 SE
12/76
ELLEL
Kings Lee Chapel
(Formerly listed as Church of St. Mary, previously listed as Chapel of St.Mary in the grounds of Ellel Grange)
7.6.1979
GV
II*
Church, built in 1873 by W. & G. Audsley on Ellel Grange (q.v.) estate. Now
disused. Coursed rock-faced sandstone with steep slate roof. High Victorian
Gothic style. Comprises a nave, lower apsidal chancel, north porch with
tower, north vestry, and south organ chamber. Porch tower of square plan with
angle buttresses, broached to an octagon with trefoiled lancet bell openings
and with a stone spire with 2 pierced bands of red sandstone. Doorway has 2
moulded orders whose red granite angle shafts have capitals whose foliation
continues as an impost band, and a trefoiled inner arch. Windows have
geometric tracery of various designs. West wall has angle buttresses and a
window of 4 lights. South nave wall has 2 bays separated by a buttress and
windows of 3 lights. North nave wall also has 2 bays with 3-light windows.
Apse has lancets. Interior. Porch has arcading with marble shafts. Interior
walls of sandstone ashlar with polychome banding. Nave has wagon roof with
paintings on panels. Around the walls is low timber arcaded panelling. On
the south side an arch opens into the organ chamber, with the organ remaining.
The inner order of the pointed chancel arch is carried on corbelled marble
shafts with foliated capitals. Below are wrought iron railings on a marble
base. On the north side is a carved stone pulpipt. The chancel roof is
decorated by painting and gilding. A cusped carved rib carried on marble
shafts separates the main roof from the aspidal end, which has radiating ribs.
The lancet windows form a moulded arcade, the arches separated by attached
square marble piers with foliated capitals. Above and below the openings are
foliated bands. The reredos is of carved alabaster. The original floor tiles
remain. Each window has finely-detailed stained glass, although the glass to
some of the windows in the apse has been badly damaged by vandals.
Listing NGR: SD4817053585
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 182149
- 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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