CHAPEL OF ST NICHOLAS

CHAPEL OF ST NICHOLAS, CHAPEL GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1352278
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL OF ST NICHOLAS, CHAPEL GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1352278
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL OF ST NICHOLAS, CHAPEL GREEN

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 NICHOLAS, CHAPEL GREEN

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County:: Suffolk
District:: Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Gipping
National Grid Reference:: TM 07204 63578

Details

GIPPING CHAPEL GREEN TM 06 SE

5/42 Chapel of St. Nicholas - 9/12/55

GV I

Free chapel, built as a private chapel c.1474-80 for Sir James Tyrell of Gipping Hall. Since 1743, a free chapel administered by trustees. Nave and chancel; north vestry added soon after, and west tower in late C16. Walling entirely of a chequerboard pattern of squared limestone rubble and knapped flint (many of the flint panels instead have brown septaria). Freestone dressings. Plaintiled roofs. 4-centred arched windows with transomes and traceried heads. The south doorway has floral carved spandrels to the arch, and the twin windows above have linking flushwork patterning. C18 panelled doors. The buttresses also have flushwork panels and a number of carved designs in freestone. The vestry is of very similar form and detail: in the north gable is a chimney intended to appear as a splayed oriel window, with false mullions and tracery, including heraldic shields carved at the head. The vestry has a private external doorway with an inscription carved into the chamfered arched head which reads "PRAY FOR SIR JAMYS TIRELL DAME ANNE HIS WYE". The north doorway retains its original battened plank door. The tower is entirely plastered and probably of brick fabric: plastered mullioned windows and doorway and parapets. Interior: flat ceiling with cambered tiebeams, arch braces rising from shafted wallposts, and moulded cornice and purlins; the pitched roof above is believed to be a later alteration. Rood loft stairway to south of plain chancel arch. C15 font with circular bowl and octagonal stem. Sets of 4 and 5 original pews with a little carving. Interior remodelling of mid C18: panelled box pews and polygonal pulpit, altar rails and several doors. A fine painted trompe d'oeuil surround to the east window with draped columns and a swag. Fine but jumbled original stained glass in the east window. An C18 hatchment at the west end. For full illustrated description:- The Chapel of St. Nicholas, Gipping, Suffolk: Proc. Suffolk Inst. Arch. Vol. XX: Philip J. Turner, FRIBA, FRAIC.

Listing NGR: TM0720463578

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Legacy System number:: 280524
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History' in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, , Vol. 20, ()

Legal

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