1881 Chapel at Convent of St John the Baptist
1881 CHAPEL AT CONVENT OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HATCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1380282
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 1881 Chapel at Convent of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- 1881 CHAPEL AT CONVENT OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HATCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1380282
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 1881 Chapel at Convent of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1881 CHAPEL AT CONVENT OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HATCH LANE
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:
- 1881 CHAPEL AT CONVENT OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HATCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 95191 76180
Details
SU 97 NE HATCH LANE
Clewer
747/8/160
1881 Chapel at Convent of
St John the Baptist
02.10.1975
II*
Chapel of Anglican convent. 1881; by Henry Woodyer. Red brick. Steeply-pitched slate roof with gabled and hipped ends.
PLAN: Tall 5-bay nave with aisles, chancel and apse.
EXTERIOR: Long and tall chancel with polygonal apse with pierced brick parapet, buttresses with crocketed pinnacles to apse and tall moulded brick 3-light windows with Geometrical tracery under crocketed gables. The roof of the nave is carried down over aisles with turrets in the angles. West gable end has pair of tall 3-light windows with statue in canopied niche between. Elaborate lead-clad fleche on the ridge of the roof.
INTERIOR: Polychrome brick walls. Lofty nave with stone arcades with tall round piers and moulded pointed arches. Timber roof with cusped arch-braces. Lower vaulted chancel and apse with painted canvas panels to the vault. Tall Gothic carved wooden rood screen. Carved stone reredos, and reredos in south aisle. Stained glass by Hardman. Monument to Canon T.T. Carter [rector of Clever and first warden], 1901 by Bodley, a recumbent effigy under a canopy. Brass of 1883 to Harriet Monsell, the foundress.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.305.
Listing NGR: SU9519176180
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480143
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 305
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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