Ruins of St Lawrence's Chapel
RUINS OF ST LAWRENCE'S CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338613
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of St Lawrence's Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF ST LAWRENCE'S CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338613
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of St Lawrence's Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF ST LAWRENCE'S 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:
- RUINS OF ST LAWRENCE'S CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barforth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 16405 16166
Details
NZ 11 NE BARFORTH BARFORTH
4/5 Ruins of St. 12.1.67 Lawrence's Chapel
GV II*
Chapel of the deserted medieval village of Barforth. C12, enlarged and remodelled in C13; nave converted into priest's house in early C16. Rubble, coursed in parts, with ashlar dressings. Rectangular plan.
South elevation in two sections: left part C12. Remains of original round- arched door to left of C13 doorway with arch of 2 orders, the outer hollow- chamfered on jamb shafts whose moulded caps and bases survive; doorway now blocked with a C16 or later 2-light window (also blocked) inserted. To right remains of narrow C12 loop and C16 square chamfered window. Right part of wall, with chamfered plinth, C13: blocked trefoil-headed priest's door and 4 lancet windows. East end has stepped clasping buttresses and small central buttress under 3 stepped lancets with linked hoodmould. North elevation shows from east to west: lancet, round-arched low-side window, chamfered doorway, buttress with chamfered angles and square C16 window; west part of wall largely fallen. West end has 3 stepped buttresses, the shorter central one below a tall lancet subdivided to serve floors of C16 priest's house.
Interior: eastern lancets have sills set low to carry reredos; rebated trefoil-headed aumbry on north. Lower part of C16 cross wall shows jambs of doorway, remains of fireplace, and squint from house to chapel.
Historical note: The chapel may have served a hospital or small collegiate establishment. The priest's house was a farmhouse until the C18; its north wall fell in the mid C19, and the cross wall in the 1960's.
Listing NGR: NZ1640516166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111594
- 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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