Sanatorium Chapel
SANATORIUM CHAPEL, OLD CROMER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391582
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Sanatorium Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- SANATORIUM CHAPEL, OLD CROMER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391582
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Sanatorium Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SANATORIUM CHAPEL, OLD CROMER ROAD
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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:
- SANATORIUM CHAPEL, OLD CROMER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- High Kelling
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 09604 39865
Details
HIGH KELLING
1233/0/10014 OLD CROMER ROAD 28-APR-06 Sanatorium Chapel
II Former sanatorium chapel. 1903 by A. Randall Wells. Weatherboarded timber frame with pantiled roofs. Simple plan of aisleless nave and chancel with the westernmost bay partitioned off and divided to form a vestry and entrance lobby. Original chancel fenestration of rectangular leaded lights (two to each elevation, those to the east widely-spaced to flank the altar). The nave is lit by three windows in the north and south walls, now modern 3-light casements with transoms but apparently set in the original openings. Similar 2-light window to vestry in north wall. Original entrance door in South wall; openings in west wall altered. The roof is continuous over the nave and chancel, with a pronounced bell-cast eaves. The centre of the roof is raised to form a ventilator running the full length of the building with a separate hipped roof. The side-walls of the ventilator are now weatherboarded, replacing the original cord-operated louvres. Interior: the chancel retains its plain painted wall panelling and pamment floor laid in a chequer-pattern of red and black-glazed tiles. The nave has a wood-block floor laid in herringbone pattern; the original partition layout at the west end is confirmed by the flooring pattern. The roof structure is concealed by a modern hardboard ceiling but is a complex arrangement of closely-set scissor trusses with the rafters rising to support the ridge-beam and the scissor braces supporting the plates on which the ventilator side-walls are set. The entire roof structure and sarking is painted, confirming that it was originally exposed to view. The original drawings for the chapel, signed by Randall Wells, survive in the Norwich Record Office.
Summary of importance: The former sanatorium chapel is a good example of the innovative side of the Arts and Crafts Movement which is well-represented in this part of Norfolk with notable works by E S Prior, Detmar Blow, Edward Maufe and Randall Wells. The later alterations to the building do not detract significantly from the quality of the original design.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492827
- 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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