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: DENSTONE COLLEGE CHAPEL
List Entry Number: 1230582
Location
DENSTONE COLLEGE CHAPEL, COLLEGE ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Staffordshire
District: East Staffordshire
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Denstone
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 30-May-1985
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 405534
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List Entry Description
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SK 04 SE DENSTONE C.P. COLLEGE ROAD (OFF)
4/24 Denstone College Chapel
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GV II
School chapel. 1879-1887. By Carpenter and Ingelow. Coursed and
squared rough faced stone with ashlar dressings; hipped clay tile roof
with crested ridge tiles. Forms the east wing of Denstone College
(q.v.); 4 bay nave, polygonal apse and flanking towers; each nave
bay division and each angle of the apse is marked by a buttress; late
C13 Gothic style. Nave has pointed windows of 3 lights with Geometrical
style tracery of 3 cusped circles over; the towers have elongated
lancets, the chancel has tall slim pointed windows of 2 lights with
traceried circle above, all windows linked at sill level by a string
course. Interior: Very tall pointed chancel arch with a smaller
pointed arch to each side;) segmental west arch and organ gallery above
with wooden cusped open work panelling; king post and scissor truss roof
with tie beam, collar and cusped bracing; chancel roof has plain rib
vaulting springing from plain clustered columns with moulded capitals;
stained glass in the chancel windows, the westernmost north window and
the central south window. Fittings: Low wooden pews/choir stalls
parallel to north and south walls, panelling at rear with bracketed.
crenellated canopy; 2 western pews, that to the north of the west
arch has an inscribed brass plaque; "This stall is erected and this
plate affixed thereto by the provost and fellows to perpetuate the
remembrance of the zeal, perseverance and success of the Rev. H. Meynell
M.A. their first Provost in the foundation of this and their other
schools and in the building of this chapel dedicated July 27 1887".
B.O.E. PP 114-115.
Listing NGR: SK0901140260
Selected Sources
Books and journalsPevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 114-5
Map
National Grid Reference: SK 09011 40260
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