FORMER CHAPEL AT WOOTTON HALL

FORMER CHAPEL AT WOOTTON HALL, STRATFORD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1382250
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: FORMER CHAPEL AT WOOTTON HALL
Statutory Address:: FORMER CHAPEL AT WOOTTON HALL, STRATFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1382250
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:: FORMER CHAPEL AT WOOTTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER CHAPEL AT WOOTTON HALL, STRATFORD ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER CHAPEL AT WOOTTON HALL, STRATFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Wootton Wawen
National Grid Reference:: SP 15519 63378

Details

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SE STRATFORD ROAD 1457-1/5/177 (North side) 05/04/67 Former Chapel at Wootton Hall (Formerly Listed as: WOOTTEN WAWEN STRATFORD ROAD, Wootten Wawen Chapel at Wootten Hall)

GV II*

Roman Catholic chapel, converted to a ballroom c1900, now disused. 1813 with later alterations including range early C20 adjoining chapel and Hall (qv) to west; c1970s outshut. Brownish-red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. Greek Revival with Mannerist elements. Continuous nave and apsidal chancel, 4-window range, north vestry. EXTERIOR: entrance to west end in early-C20 porch with part-glazed, 4-panel double doors and overlight with radial glazing. Porch partly obscures projecting entrance facade, reminiscent of Italian Mannerist church facades, which has Tuscan pilasters with frieze, architrave and cornice, blocking course, curvilinear gable end with central Diocletian recess, copings. Chamfered plinth, pilaster buttresses between windows and first-stage band. Behind this are giant end pilasters with frieze, cornice and unelaborated pediment to gable end with weather-vane and cross at apex. Nave and chancel: chamfered plinth, pilaster buttresses between windows with paired pilasters to ends of nave; first-stage band, frieze and roll-moulded cornice. Nave has 4 round-arched window openings, one now blocked and interrupted by garage doors to north side, otherwise with multi-pane windows with radial glazing to head and margin lights, the margins have stained glass. Chancel has similar window to east end and Diocletian windows to upper stage. Windows have sills and rubbed brick arches. Curved roof to apse, otherwise gabled roof. Octagonal cupola to chancel. INTERIOR: Doric pilasters with frieze, cornice with triglyphs and metopes, 2 fluted Doric columns to chancel with elliptical arch. Entrances to apse have 6-panel doors, curved on plan in moulded architraves with frieze and cornice on consoles. Segmental-vaulted ceiling. To west end a gallery which gives access to Wootton Hall (qv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 482).

Listing NGR: SP1551963378

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 482616
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 482

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.