Chapel at Scargill House, Including Linking Passage, Staircase and Vestry
CHAPEL AT SCARGILL HOUSE, INCLUDING LINKING PASSAGE, STAIRCASE AND VESTRY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376604
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Scargill House, Including Linking Passage, Staircase and Vestry
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AT SCARGILL HOUSE, INCLUDING LINKING PASSAGE, STAIRCASE AND VESTRY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376604
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Scargill House, Including Linking Passage, Staircase and Vestry
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AT SCARGILL HOUSE, INCLUDING LINKING PASSAGE, STAIRCASE AND VESTRY
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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 SCARGILL HOUSE, INCLUDING LINKING PASSAGE, STAIRCASE AND VESTRY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kettlewell with Starbotton
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 97799 71067
Details
SD 97 SE
1301/11/10003
KETTLEWELL WITH STARBOTTON
Chapel at Scargill House, including linking passage, staircase and vestry
II*
Chapel for religious holiday and conference centre. 1958-61. G.G. Pace. Local limestone rubble, exposed cedar boarding, some exposed concrete, red-cedar shingles to steeply pitched chapel roof, flat roof to link block. Rectangular aisled chapel with serpentine link to Scargill House, containing staircase and vestry; projecting north porch. Chapel is dominated by steeply pitched shingle-covered roof, which sweeps down at a slightly more gradual angle towards the eaves. Gables both glazed, with glazing rising into point of gables, divided by timber mullions and transoms of varying thickness into lights of rectangular shape and varying sizes. Exposed cedar vertical boarding around and below these windows. Prominent buttresses supporting large concrete gutter spouts. Serpentine link of local stone rubble swells to accommodate staircase and attains a monumental scale due to the fall in the land towards Scargill House. It is articulated by rows of linked vertical strip windows.
Internally, the altar is placed on the short axis, parallel with the roof ridge, and is set forward from the wall as a broad, low, sanctuary step. Internally the walls are of exposed rubble stone and the roof is supported by large laminated timber trusses, which divide into a `y' shape at the base to define the aisles. The windows are glazed with plain plate glass deliberately chosen to allow glimpses of the dale. Reading desk and chair comprises roughly dressed monolithic stone slabs with `chunky' timber; a pair of pedestals to rear of altar also of stone. A large black metal cross to rear of altar is also in Pace's characteristic manner. `Chunky' timber benches. Simple black metal pendant lights, cylindrical, with slightly flared mouths, are also original. Varnished wood block floor. In the passage a cross is described in studs on the plastered wall of the staircase. Scargill House itself is not included in the listing.
One of Pace's best churches, deceptive in its simplicity and designed, using local materials `to appear to grow out of the dale', as Pace intended. It is also liturgically advanced for its date in England, with its free-standing altar placed in front of the side wall.
Listing NGR: SD9779971067
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470610
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pace, Peter, The Architecture of George Pace, (1990), 178-179
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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