Chapel of St Mary and St Edmund
CHAPEL OF ST MARY AND ST EDMUND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372013
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Mary and St Edmund
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST MARY AND ST EDMUND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372013
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Mary and St Edmund
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST MARY AND ST EDMUND
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 OF ST MARY AND ST EDMUND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Catesby
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 51555 59579
Details
CATESBY LOWER CATESBY SP55NW 4/42 Chapel of St. Mary and St. 18/01/68 Edmund GV II Church. Built 1861-2 on foundations of C17 chapel of Old Catesby House by Gillet of Leicester for James Attenborough; Porch and vestry of 1894. Ironstone ashlar, tiled roof. Rectangular plan. 3-light mullioned and transomed east window with hood mould. 2-light mullioned windows to north and south sides. Angle and side buttresses. String courses below windows. One-bay vestry on south-east corner. West porch timber-framed on low stone walls. Small single-light window above porch. At apex of gable stone bellcote with single open pointed arch containing one bell. Roof has 2 timber dormers north and south and stone coped gables with kneelers. Interior: reset piscina and sedilia of c.1300 from Catesby Priory of 3 bays with crocketed gables and pinnacles, now framing door to vestry. Fragments of medieval stained glass in west window. C19 stained glass in east and south-east windows. C17 woodwork from former chapel including late C17 communion rail with barley sugar balusters. Early C17 pulpit with tester. Jacobean panels incorporated in pews. Some of Jacobean-style timber corbels supporting roof may be original. Painted Royal Arms of Charles II at west end and hatchments of Parkhurst family. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.145; Rev. S.H. Marriott, Some Notes for a History of Catesby).
Listing NGR: SP5155559579
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 360532
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 145
Other
Marriott, SH, Some Notes for a History of Catesby,
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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