Ruined Chapel of St Nicholas

RUINED CHAPEL OF ST NICHOLAS, STOKE-BY-NAYLAND

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1351897
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:
Ruined Chapel of St Nicholas
Statutory Address:
RUINED CHAPEL OF ST NICHOLAS, STOKE-BY-NAYLAND

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1351897
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1953
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Feb-1978
List Entry Name:
Ruined Chapel of St Nicholas
Statutory Address 1:
RUINED CHAPEL OF ST NICHOLAS, STOKE-BY-NAYLAND

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RUINED CHAPEL OF ST NICHOLAS, STOKE-BY-NAYLAND

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
Stoke-by-Nayland
National Grid Reference:
TM0177837339

Details

1.
5377
TM 03 NW
13/810
10.1.53

Stoke-by-Nayland
Ruined Chapel of St Nicholas
(formerly listed as Giffords Hall and ruined. Chapel of St Nicholas)

II
GV

2.
Built by Richard Constable who held the manor of Giffords Hall in 1216.
He may also have built the earlier hall which was on the site of the
present building, but it is more likely to have been the Gifford family
who held the manor from the mid C13 to the mid C14. A flint building
with nave and chancel now in ruins.

Listing NGR: TM0177837339

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
278552
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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