ST ANNES CHAPEL AND OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL MUSEUM INCLUDING WALLS AND GATES AND PIERS

ST ANNES CHAPEL AND OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL MUSEUM INCLUDING WALLS AND GATES AND PIERS, PATERNOSTER ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1385253
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:: ST ANNES CHAPEL AND OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL MUSEUM INCLUDING WALLS AND GATES AND PIERS
Statutory Address:: ST ANNES CHAPEL AND OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL MUSEUM INCLUDING WALLS AND GATES AND PIERS, PATERNOSTER ROW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1385253
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Sep-1999
List Entry Name:: ST ANNES CHAPEL AND OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL MUSEUM INCLUDING WALLS AND GATES AND PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: ST ANNES CHAPEL AND OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL MUSEUM INCLUDING WALLS AND GATES AND PIERS, PATERNOSTER ROW

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ST ANNES CHAPEL AND OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL MUSEUM INCLUDING WALLS AND GATES AND PIERS, PATERNOSTER ROW

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Barnstaple
National Grid Reference:: SS 55885 33210

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS558332 PATERNOSTER ROW 684-1/8/212 (North side) 19/01/51 St Anne's Chapel and Old Grammar School Museum inc walls, gates & piers (Formerly Listed as: PATERNOSTER ROW Chapel of St Anne)

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Chantry chapel, later grammar school, now museum. Probably early C14 with early/mid C16 tower, restored 1869; enclosing walls and gates mid/late C19. Stone rubble, that in the tower roughly coursed; dressed stone surrounds to windows and doorway. Slated roof with C19 crested red ridge-tiles. Stone rubble chimney on north wall; square top of dressed stone, its sides (now panelled in red brick) probably open originally. Plan consists of a single large upper room with undercroft. Square tower at W end of S side containing entrance porch and staircase. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; tower 3-storeyed. Ground storey has 3 single-light shouldered-head windows in N wall, 2 in S wall and 2 of 2 lights each in E wall; all have been re-made in C19; relieving arches above. In W wall is a narrow doorway with chamfered pointed head and drip-mould of worn, orange-coloured stone; chamfered jambs rebuilt in local stone; relieving arch above. In upper storey, N, S, and W walls each have a 2-light, pointed-arched window and hoodmould of worn, orange-coloured stone, that in W wall possibly a restoration; trefoil-headed lights with round cinquefoil light in the head. Similar 3-light window, partly restored, in E wall; the round light differs in containing 3 trefoil panels. Tower has a worn segmental-headed doorway (possibly of Beer stone) in 2nd storey of W face; hollow-moulded and carved with large flowers in high relief. Approached from Paternoster Row by C19 granite steps with stone rubble flanking walls having chamfered, dressed stone copings. Above the doorway is a worn, single-light window of the same stone; cinquefoil arch under a square head with hoodmould. S wall has second and 3rd-storey window in similar style, both probably restored: 3 lights in 2nd storey with carved heads terminating the hoodmould, 2 mullioned and transomed lights in 3rd storey, also with carved heads. In ground storey is a stone plaque commemorating the death of Thomas Lee junior, architect of the Guildhall, High Street (qv), drowned while bathing in the sea at Morthoe on 5.9.1884. E wall has a small square stair window with restored hollow-moulded surround. Fixed to the corners and sides of the tower are 4 worn gargoyles, probably re-used. Crenellated parapet. Attached to the E side of the tower is a single-storeyed projection, possibly a C19 boiler room. Main range has mid C19 bell turret (without bell) at W end; cross, probably of similar date, at E end; both gables have kneelers, but no coping-stones. INTERIOR: entrance doorway to chapel/upper schoolroom has chamfered, pointed-arched stone surround with pyramid stops and hoodmould; C19 plank door with ornate iron hinges of uncertain date. Room inside has C14 stone piscina with cinquefoil ogee arch; surround with quarter-round moulding and pyramidal stop. Plain waggon roof, unceiled. C19 dado of chamfered planks. Fireplace with plain stone surround. 3 patterned iron ventilators in floor. C19 desks with bases of reused C17 balusters. Under W window is a black marble pedestal inscribed IOH: GAY POETA AMABILIS NATUS BARNSTAPOLIAE AD 1685 IN HAC SCHOLA EDUCATUS. OBIIT LONDONI AD 1732. The bust of Gay, shown in a late C19 photograph, is missing. Ground storey has an axial ceiling beam on long chamfered pads supported by arch-braces and chamfered posts; latter have restored step-stops at base, convex ones at top. On display is a C17 carved wood door and door-frame from a house in Castle Street. Stone staircase with stone parapet wall at top; C17 panelling and door at bottom; borrowed light with chamfered stone frame. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the ground surrounding the chapel (formerly part of the churchyard) is enclosed on the S and W sides by a stone rubble wall with a chamfered granite coping. Opposite the steps to the chapel this is built up into a pair of gate piers with chamfered corners and cap. Cast-iron gates with fleurs-de-lys and quatrefoil decoration. On the corner of Church Lane a similar gate without piers. The walls originally carried railings.

Listing NGR: SS5588433221

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Legacy System number:: 485715
Legacy System:: LBS

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