Middleton Chapel
MIDDLETON CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383685
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Middleton Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLETON CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383685
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Middleton Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLETON CHAPEL
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:
- MIDDLETON CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bitterley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 54007 77333
Details
BITTERLEY
SO57NW MIDDLETON
482-1/5/98 Middleton Chapel
12/11/54
GV II*
Church. C12, restored 1857. Stone rubble with ashlar
dressings. Plain-tile roof.
PLAN: chancel, nave with north porch and integral bellcote.
EXTERIOR: C19 chancel east window of 3 Norman-style lancets
with roundel over. Blocked door with plain flat-headed
tympanum over. Flat-headed C12 lancet to south. North wall
with single C12 Norman lancet. Nave: north wall has C12 Norman
lancet, and C19 restored Norman-style lancet and doorway and 2
ashlar buttresses. South wall has single C12 Norman lancet and
3 C19 Norman-style lancets interspersed with 3 C19 ashlar
buttresses. West end rebuilt mid C19 incorporating arched west
window in Norman style, the window set in projecting buttress
rising to form bellcote with ashlar-roofed canopy with single
bell-opening. North porch: C19 gabled porch with
sandstone-slate roof, set on timber-frame and ashlar plinth.
INTERIOR: chancel with single-bay single-purlin restored roof
of reset rafters and ashlaring. Stained glass in east window
by Kempe. Restored chancel arch on scalloped capital and
half-round shaft. Chancel screen with 8 openings with vaulting
supporting gallery over, restored but retaining mostly
original material. Unpierced end bays, open central pair, and
mid rail with tracery under side bays. Arched entrance inset
with carving and initials N N on one spandrel. Open pendant
tracery in Decorated-style pointed arches. Vaulting over
arcade with bressumer with 3 bands of foliage carving. Plain
vertical-panelled gallery with restored foiled tracery in
central panels. Probably original, with a rood loft that was
not restored with the rest of the screen. Screen was dated
1582 prior to restoration. Nave: 4-bay restored roof with 3
arch-braced hammerbeam trusses and single trenched purlin
roof. Each truss of principals, collar, hammerbeams with
carved ends, strut and restored arch-braces, wall-posts and
brackets. C16 plain octagonal font.
Listing NGR: SO5400777333
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484117
- 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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