Chapel at Sedbergh School
CHAPEL AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, LOFTUS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384171
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Sedbergh School
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, LOFTUS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384171
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Sedbergh School
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, LOFTUS HILL
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 AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, LOFTUS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedbergh
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 65796 91770
Details
SEDBERGH
SD6591 LOFTUS HILL, Sedbergh Town
162-1/20/406 (West side)
14/06/84 Chapel at Sedbergh School
(Formerly Listed as:
BUSK LANE
Chapel at Sedbergh School)
GV II*
School chapel. 1897, by Paley and Austin. Snecked yellow
sandstone with some sandstone ashlar, stone slate roofs.
Perpendicular style. Nave and chancel in one vessel, with low
north and south aisles, full-height north and south transepts
(that on the north side coupled with a porch), and a fleche at
the crossing; addition to west end of nave.
EXTERIOR: the 7-bay nave has 6 square-headed 2-light windows
with cusped lights and low brattished transoms, a weathered
string course stepped over the windows, and an ashlar parapet
stepped up at the ends; and a 5-light west window above a
single-storey flat-roofed extension. The low aisles have small
widely-spaced 2-light windows with ogee-headed lights, and at
the west end of the north aisle is a prominent gabled porch
with diagonal buttresses and a parapet with swept ridged
coping, which has a round-headed doorway with moulded
surround, and a statue in a niche with brattished top
surmounted by a cross breaking through the parapet. The
transepts each have a tall 3-light transomed window with
Perpendicular tracery in the head (that in the north transept
with blocked lower lights); in the west angle of the north
transept is a 2-storey aisle which has a doorway like the
other and a cross-window above, and in the east angle of the
south transept (and continuous with it) is a low gabled vestry
which has an arched doorway to the left and a 2-light window
to the right. (This transept has a ridge chimney.) The
chancel, with weathered buttresses, has a 3-light window in
the north side and a large 5-light east window with
Perpendicular tracery in the head. Large octagonal fleche with
open arcading and ogival cap to the turret.
INTERIOR: low aisle arcades of segmental arches with cavetto
moulding dying into the piers; tall 2-bay arcade to north
transept in similar style; open timber roof with arch bracing;
chancel with sedilia and piscina, carved reredos; stained
glass by Kempe.
Forms group with associated boundary wall and railings (qv).
Listing NGR: SD6579791772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484603
- 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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