Roman Catholic Eyre Chapel (Behind Newbold Road)
ROMAN CATHOLIC EYRE CHAPEL (BEHIND NEWBOLD ROAD), NEWBOLD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1374497
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Eyre Chapel (Behind Newbold Road)
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC EYRE CHAPEL (BEHIND NEWBOLD ROAD), NEWBOLD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1374497
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Eyre Chapel (Behind Newbold Road)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC EYRE CHAPEL (BEHIND NEWBOLD ROAD), NEWBOLD 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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC EYRE CHAPEL (BEHIND NEWBOLD ROAD), NEWBOLD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Chesterfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK3687472865
Details
In the entry for the following:
SK 37 SE
13/36
NEWBOLD ROAD
(South Side)
Newbold
Roman Catholic Eyre Chapel (behind Newbold Road)
II* GV
The description shall be amended to read:
Medieval and later - small rectangular chapel. Coursed stone rubble with stone
slate roof. Plain pinnacles on all four corners. Crocheted pinnacle on west
gable. No openings on north side. Two doors on south side, one with Tudor arch
and the other (priest's door) with low relief Norman carving in tympanum and
jambs bearing traces of moulding. 2 2-light Perpendicular flat-headed windows
with cusped light to south; similar windows to east and west. Raised stone
altar at east end. Five timber tie-beams, three with 15th Century carved
bosses. Former chapel of the Eyre family. Granted by James II for Roman
Catholic worship and sacked by protestant mob in 1688. Large stone cross in
burial ground surrounding the chapel commemorates its restoration in 1887 and
the re-internment in the Crypt beneath the stone flagged floor of 12 members of
Eyre family. Stone horse mounting block built into north east corner of
building. Restored completely in 1989 for communal use.
1.
5169
SK 37 SE
13/36
13.3.68
NEWBOLD ROAD
(South Side)
Newbold
Roman Catholic Eyre Chapel (behind Newbold Road)
II*
GV
2.
Mediaeval and later. Small rectangular chapel of coursed stone rubble with stone
slate roof. Pinnacles crocketed over west door. 2 perpendicular windows at south
side, flat arched and mullioned with cusped lights but now bricked up. 2 doors
one with low relief Norman carving in tympanum, the other with Tudor arch. Formerly
the chapel of the Eyre family. Granted by James II for Roman Catholic worship
and sacked by a Protestant mob in 1688.
Listing NGR: SK3687472865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 83423
- 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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