Eaton Chapel North of Eaton Hall
EATON CHAPEL NORTH OF EATON HALL, EATON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1330615
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Eaton Chapel North of Eaton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- EATON CHAPEL NORTH OF EATON HALL, EATON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1330615
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Eaton Chapel North of Eaton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- EATON CHAPEL NORTH OF EATON HALL, EATON PARK
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:
- EATON CHAPEL NORTH OF EATON HALL, EATON PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eaton and Eccleston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41391 60776
Details
SJ 4160 EATON C.P. EATON PARK
9/64 Eaton Chapel north of Eaton Hall
I
Private Chapel, 1873-84, by Alfred Waterhouse for 1st Duke of Westminster. Buff sandstone with grey slate roof. Lofty 5 bay nave and continuing 3 bay apsed chancel. Early French 6-stage tower with corbelled clock-chamber surmounted by a short gabled and pinnacled spire, linked to the chapel by a 2 storey wing with a bridge above. Octagonal stair turret with spire at ritual north-west corner of nave. Geometrical bar tracery to chapel windows; tall recessed paired lancet bell openings in tower. Interior, of buff and pink banded stone, is rib vaulted with gilt bosses. Slender shafting accentuates the height of nave and chancel. A low timber-vaulted narthex across the ritual west bay carries a gallery. The blank north arcade contains mosaics by Frederick Shields, 1884. Stained glass of biblical scenes and characters by Shields was commissioned 1886 and made by Heaton Butler & Bayne. Recumbant effigy of Constance, Duchess (died 1884) by Boehm. Marble steps and floor to chancel, marble altar and pulpit, brass altar rail and bronze chandelier, all ornate. Patterned polychrome nave floor and carved oak pews. In Waterhouse's great design for Eaton Hall, the Chapel was the fulcrum between the Hall (demolished) and the stable wing: the exterior is finely composed and the richly designed and furnished interior is complete. cf. St James the Less, Lillington Gardens, Westminster by G E Street 1860's and St Elisabeth, Reddish, Stockport 1882-3 by Waterhouse. See Pevsner & Hubbard.
Listing NGR: SJ4138560776
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55260
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,
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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