CHAPEL OF ST STEPHEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1351742
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST STEPHEN
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL OF ST STEPHEN

St Stephen's Chapel Bures, south elevation. Large thatched barn like structure, single storey, with slit windows. — Uploaded by Laurie Bolt This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1351742
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Feb-1978
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST STEPHEN
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL OF ST STEPHEN

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL OF ST STEPHEN

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:: Bures St. Mary
National Grid Reference:: TL 91770 34441

Details

Bures St Mary 1. 5377 Chapel of St Stephen (formerly listed as Chapel Barn) TL 9134 26/73 10.1.53. I

2. Originally a chapel said to have been erected by Abbot Sampson of Bury in the late C12 or early C13, on the site of the King Church where Edmund was crowned King of the Angles in 855. A stone rubble building with heavy buttresses on the south and east sides. There are 3 tall lancet windows in the east end and smaller lancets in the north and south walls. On the north side there is a gabled 2 storey entrance bay with exposed timber-framing and brick nogging on the 1st storey. The interior has 3 fine tombs of the De Vere family removed from Colne Priory, Earls Colne, Essex. One is to Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford (d 1296) has ogee arched niches on the sides. Another to Thomas de Vere, 8th Earl of Oxford (d 1371) also has ogee arched niches on the sides, and the third to Richard de Vere (d 1417) and his wife Alice is of alabaster. All the tombs have recumbent figures.

Listing NGR: TL9177034441

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Legacy System number:: 277870
Legacy System:: LBS

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