Chapel of Kingswood School

Chapel of Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5RG

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A school chapel, built in 1922 as a war memorial to the fallen former pupils of Kingswood School. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1405701
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-2011
List Entry Name:: Chapel of Kingswood School
Statutory Address:: Chapel of Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5RG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1405701
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-2011
List Entry Name:: Chapel of Kingswood School
Location Description:: The chapel is located on the west side of Lansdown Road, within the grounds of Kingswood School.
Statutory Address 1:: Chapel of Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5RG

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Chapel of Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5RG

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST7443966652

Summary

A school chapel, built in 1922 as a war memorial to the fallen former pupils of Kingswood School.

Reasons for Designation

* Architectural interest: as a good example of an early-C20 commemorative chapel built in the Neo-Perpendicular Gothic style; * Group value: with the main school building and the entrance lodge and memorial gateway, both listed at Grade II.

History

The chapel was built as a war memorial to the former fallen pupils of the school. It complements the slightly different Tudor Gothic style of the main school.

Details

Commemorative school chapel. 1922. By Gunton and Gunton.

MATERIALS: Bath limestone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof.

PLAN: a rectangular nave with apsed chancel.

EXTERIOR: built in a Perpendicular style. The west end has an unfinished look as if a porch was intended. A recessed doorway surrounded by a shield moulding is framed by buttresses with offsets. These are flanked by two-light mullioned windows with cusped heads and drip moulds over. Above is a five-light Perpendicular window with hood-mould over. Buttresses with offsets at either side. Side elevations of five bays, three-light windows with a band of shields on a wide transom. Buttresses with offsets. Corbel table, castellated parapet. Apsed chancel with lancet window to each face.

INTERIOR: contains a lobby under the west gallery, a four-bay nave with hammer beam roof, and shield band on the window transoms as to the exterior. Good quality oak joinery and furniture. Panelled front to the gallery and panelled screen below.

Sources

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Legal

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