Chapel of St Catherine
CHAPEL OF ST CATHERINE, OLD PORTSMOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1377750
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Catherine
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST CATHERINE, OLD PORTSMOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1377750
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Catherine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST CATHERINE, OLD PORTSMOUTH 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 OF ST CATHERINE, OLD PORTSMOUTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Artington
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 99343 48190
Details
SU 94 NE ARTINGTON C.P. OLD PORTSMOUTH ROAD
3/50 Chapel of St Catherine 14.6.67 (formerly listed as The ruins of St. Catherine I Chapel Guildford) Chapel. Built shortly before 1317 by Richard de Wauncey, Rector of St Nicholas, on the site of an earlier chapel. Sandstone rubble with grey ashlar stone dressings. Now roofless. Rectangular 45½ feet x 20½ feet internally, three bays. Buttressed, originally with pinnacles on north and south sides, taller quoined turret to north west corner. Arched windows in Decorated style, with hood mouldings. Central window on first floor of north and south sides converted into additional doorways, possibly in the late C18. Large window to east.
The chapel was disused by the 1540's, although restored in 1793 by Robert Austen.
The chapel is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
LIST OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN ENGLAND No 24 (HMSO) 1973. ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL VOL 47 (1890) pp 59, 64. VCH SURREY. VOL III p 9. PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1972) p 270.
Listing NGR: SU9935048190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288307
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey, (1902), 9
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 270
Archaeological Journal in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 47, (1890), 59, 64
Other
List of Ancient Monuments in England, (1973)
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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