The Chantry, and Adjacent Doorway
THE CHANTRY, AND ADJACENT DOORWAY, CHURCH PATH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366640
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Chantry, and Adjacent Doorway
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHANTRY, AND ADJACENT DOORWAY, CHURCH PATH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366640
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Chantry, and Adjacent Doorway
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHANTRY, AND ADJACENT DOORWAY, CHURCH PATH
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:
- THE CHANTRY, AND ADJACENT DOORWAY, CHURCH PATH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55626 16064
Details
ST5516SE YEOVIL CP CHURCH PATH (West side)
5/3 The Chantry
(formerly listed as the Technical
Institute), and adjacent doorway
19.3.51
GV II
Chantry chapel, later school; Late C14 (re-erected on new site 1885). Local
stone cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate roof between coped
gables. Single storey. Gable end to Church Path has deep plinth, square offset
buttresses and angled string course and coping without finial; one C14 window
with reticulated tracery and label moulding: the wing wall to the North has a
pointed arch doorway of C19. The North flank wall (masked by the boundary wall)
has three C14 late cusped tracery windows. Interior not inspected. A medieval
Chantry chapel which originally stood against the South West corner of St.
Johns' Church tower. By 1410 used as a Choir School, and refurbished in 1573 as
the School House. Dismantled in 1855 and re-erected on its present site as part
of the original St. Johns Sunday Schools, used in conjunction with same until
c1880, and then lent to the Roman Catholics until their church was finished
c1898. It then became part of the Technical Institute; (disused January 1983).
Listing NGR: ST5562416064
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261340
- 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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