The Chapel, Gray's Inn Square
THE CHAPEL, GRAY'S INN SQUARE, GRAY'S INN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322148
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Chapel, Gray's Inn Square
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHAPEL, GRAY'S INN SQUARE, GRAY'S INN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322148
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Chapel, Gray's Inn Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHAPEL, GRAY'S INN SQUARE, GRAY'S INN
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:
- THE CHAPEL, GRAY'S INN SQUARE, GRAY'S INN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31065 81739
Details
TQ3181NW
798-1/102/634
CAMDEN
GRAY'S INN (South side)
The Chapel, Gray's Inn Square
24/10/51
GV
II
Chapel. c1955 by Sir Edward Maufe incorporating C17 fabric listed in 1951. Reconstruction of basically C17 building bombed in the Second World War. The building has been extended eastwards and re-roofed with a new bellcote. Brick with stone dressings. Tile roof with octagonal bellcote and clock at west end. Single storey, five-bay rectangular, aisleless plan. North facade only visible, with three three-light windows and doorway in C16 manner at west end.
INTERIOR: three-bay nave and narrower two-bay chancel and sanctuary. Concrete ribbed roof, chancel with trabeated panels. Chancel with five-light cusped traceried east window filled with reset glass of c1895. Organ in elaborate case with carved decoration. three nave windows with three-light cusped tracery and reset glass of 1895 commemorating four Archbishops of Canterbury associated with Gray's Inn. Chancel stalls, altar, floor, and other fittings all c1955 by Maufe, including the pulpit, lectern and pews of maple wood donated by the Canadian Bar Association. Three-light window in south-east corner of nave, looking on to internal passage, with capitals in unmistakably Maufe style. Pendant hanging lights c1955. War memorials to fallen benchers of both World Wars. Forms a continuous composition with the Hall (qv) as the centrepiece of Gray's Inn.
Listing NGR: TQ3106581739
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477459
- 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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