Chapel and Attached School
CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOL, POTTERHANWORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360209
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel and Attached School
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOL, POTTERHANWORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360209
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Jul-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel and Attached School
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOL, POTTERHANWORTH ROAD
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 AND ATTACHED SCHOOL, POTTERHANWORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- North Kesteven (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Heighington
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 03005 69413
Details
HEIGHINGTON POTTERHANWORTH ROAD TF 0270-0370 (west side) TF 0269-0369 10/50 - 11/50 Chapel and attached school (formerly listed 23.8.67 as Parish Church - no dedication)
GV II
Former parish church, now chapel of ease and attached school rooms. C12, 1619 restored and extended 1865 by Michael Drury. medieval west tower with single cell nave and chancel, plus attached school rooms to the north. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with coped gables and moulded kneelers. Quoins, chamfered plinth and eaves band. Square west lower with corner buttresses, has blank lower 2 stages with above a pair of pointed bell openings within a single chamfered arch to each face. Topped by a parapet pierced with quatrefoils, and with a single ornate corner pinnacle, plus a pyramidal slate roof with iron weathervane. Nave, south front, has to the left a slightly projecting gabled porch, with deeply moulded pointed arch and double plank doors with ornte iron hinges. To the right 3, 3-light geometrical tracery windows in moulded and chamfered pointed arches with hood moulds. The east gable wall has a single, large 4-light geometrical tracery window also in a moulded and chamfered pointed arch with hoodmould. To the right the school with a projecting gabled porch, with a large plank door in chamfered ashlar surround to the south, and a pair of windows in the east gable wall. To the right a 2-light geometrical tracery window in a chamfered pointed arch and beyond 2 lancets all with hoodmoulds. Interior has a late Normal tower arch with water leaf capitals, plus C19 pews, pulpit altar rail and oil lamps. This parish church fell into decay and was restored in 1619 at the expense of Thomas Garrett one of the Fen Drainage Adventurers, unfortunately none of this work survived the subsequent C19 restoration programme.
Listing NGR: TF0300569413
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 192822
- 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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