List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHAPEL OF ST MARY AT ARLEY HALL
List entry Number: 1139505
Location
CHAPEL OF ST MARY AT ARLEY HALL
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Cheshire East | Unitary Authority | Aston By Budworth |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 07-Sep-1979
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 58503
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Details
SJ 68 SE ASTON-BY-BUDWORTH C.P. ARLEY HALL
3/11 Chapel of St Mary at
Arley Hall
7.9.79
GV II*
Chapel. 1845. By Anthony Salvin with north aisle of 1856-7 by George
Street. Ashlar and rendered brick with slate and tile roofs. Nave
with north aisle, bell turret, porch and chancel. Decorated Gothic.
South front: 4 bay nave, 2-light pointed mullioned window to left with
hood mould. Projecting 2-storey bay to right of this (originally
forming connecting passages to house) now with rendered south wall.
Plain ashlar west wall. Canted enriched oriel to east front supported
on buttress with carved beasts and small lancets to either side with
cusped tracery. In the angle between the projection and the body of
the nave is an octagonal bell turret with one lancet to the south
east wall. 8 lancet openings to bell stage with hood moulds and
end-stops. Red tiled double-pitch roof above this. Nave body to
right has a moulded base common to the chancel and east end. Two
2-light mullioned windows with varied tracery. Buttresses between
with off-sets and gargoyles above. Angled buttress at east end of
nave with niche containing statue of Virgin and Child on a column and
moulded canopy and gargoyle above. Pierced parapet common to nave and
chancel. Chancel: of 2 bays set back slightly from the nave with two
2-light Decorated windows. Butress between with off sets and gargoyle
spout and crocketed pinnacle over. Moulded lead rain water head and
down pipe. Priests door with wrought iron decoration below left-hand
window. North front: of Street's building with plainer decorated
tracery and with plain buttresses between. Right hand window has
doorway beneath with carved stonework to spandrels and wrought iron
work to door. Left hand nave window is a double Decorated design of
2 x 2 lights. Vestry to left has one triple lancet to right. East
front has late Ibcorated window to vestry and window of c1890 to
chancel. The west wall is now rendered to its lower part where it
originally joined the house and has stone work to the gable with a
traceried window.
Interior: Nave south wall has string course with ball flower end
stops. 2-storey moulded arch to'original entrance from house. Wooden
moulded panelling to gallery front. North arcade of 3 bays with
ovolo-moulded colomettes by Street with high-relief capitals of
foliage. Nave roof supported on wooden angle corbels, holding
shields, arch braces to tie with longitudinal beam. 3 double-corona
chandeliers with candelabra and lectern by Singer of Frome, Somerset
c1880. Walls originally plastered, brickwork now exposed. North
aisle has stone corbels supporting lean-to roof. Pierced spandrels to
roof. Iron screen by Street richly polychromatically painted as is
the iron radiator cover in the style of a C13 tomb with lily finials.
Front: richly carved stone bowl with 8 panels carved with foliage
designs and the Agnus Dei supported on a cluster of marble columns.
Chancel has piscina and triple sedilia. East window stained glass by
Kempe of 1895.
Listing NGR: SJ6755680968
Selected Sources
- Article Reference - Title: Part 6 Cheshire - Journal Title: Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England
National Grid Reference: SJ 67556 80968
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