Chapel at Charterhouse School
CHAPEL AT CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL, HURTMORE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1352726
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Charterhouse School
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AT CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL, HURTMORE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1352726
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Charterhouse School
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AT CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL, HURTMORE ROAD
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:
- CHAPEL AT CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL, HURTMORE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Godalming
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 96494 45015
Details
GODALMING HURTMORE ROAD
SU 94 SE and SU 9645 SW
(south side, off)
2/149 and 5/149
Chapel at Charterhouse
16.1.81 School (formerly listed
under Charterhouse road)
GV
II*
School chapel. 1927 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Bargate rubblestone brought to
course with ashlar dressings; plain tile roof. ll-bay nave and chancel in one
with eastern apse. In modified Gothic style with Arts and Crafts detail. Tall
building, the apparent height increased by having 5 very narrow gabled window
bays to each side holding tall single lancets and alternating with wide bays,
blank except for low square-headed windows at ground level, below offset, and
balustraded balconies near the top leading to lights in the splayed flanks of
the window-bay gables. Four octagonal corner turrets. One-storey porch wings
at each corner have good carved detail to doorways. In eastern apse, grouped
lancets below a large rose window. At west end, three tall lancets in a large
round-arched recess with door below. High-pitched roof with rounded hip over
apse. Interior: large aisleless open space, the walls smooth-rendered and with
ashlar dressings. Oak wainscoting at lower level with pointed-arched panels and
arcaded canopy. Elaborate carved oak organ case in centre at either side.
Raised apse with carved stone reredos pierced for light from stained glass
window. Raised west end bay with side screens, furnished as memorial chapel for
the two world wars. Three doorways at west end, carved and moulded. Roof
barrel-vaulted having flat ribs with hollow chamfers and roll-moulded arrises.
A rich building of inspired design and meticulous craftsmanship both inside and
out.
Listing NGR: SU9649445015
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 5 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291425
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 10 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/23503
War Memorials Online, accessed 6 December 2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/198189
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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