CHAPEL OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CREECH)

CHAPEL OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CREECH), GRANGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1323359
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1959
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CREECH)
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CREECH), GRANGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1323359
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1959
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CREECH)
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CREECH), GRANGE ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CREECH), GRANGE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Steeple with Tyneham
National Grid Reference:: SY 91062 82424

Details

SY98SW MORETON GRANGE ROAD 9/239 (West Side) 20.11.59 Chapel of St John the Evangelist (Creech) GV II*

Small chapel-of-Ease - formerly private chapel to Creech Grange. Built 1746 by Dennis Bond, incorporating C12 chancel arch from East Holme Priory. Rebuilt C19 except for north transept. In "Norman" style. Ashlar stone walls, stone slate roofs with coped gables - part re-covered in asbestos sheeting. Nave, chancel, north transept south vestry. West tower. Square tower with smaller square turret with open arches and pyramid roof on moulded cornice. Round-headed window to nave, with shallow buttresses between. Triple east window. Internally, good C12 chancel arch, of two orders with chevron and nailhead ornament. Jamb shafts with carved capitals. Chancel windows have inner moulding in "Norman" style. Corbel table at eaves. West doorway and tower arch incorporate some C12 stonework. Plastered barrel ceilings to nave and transept. Boarded barrel ceiling to chancel. RCHM Monument 2.

Listing NGR: SY9106282424

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 108696
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 12 Dorset,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.