Description

SU 42 NE HURSLEY PITT

5/4 Pitt Chapel School
16.3.84
GV II

School/Chapel. 1858 by W Butterfield for Charlotte Yonge, authoress, of
Otterbourne, and John Keble, Vicar of Hursley. Rubble flint with galleting,
brick bands and brick and stone dressings, old plain tile roof, and weather-
boarded porch. Single cell 5 narrow bay building with porch at SW and
vestry to NW. Brick plinth. E end has 3-light trefoiled stone window in
brick arch and iron cross on gable. Stepped gabled brick buttress on N & S
walls to denote end of chancel. To S in centre bays a 2 or 3-light pointed
window with part brick and part stone dressings. S porch on low brick walls,
gabled with pointed archway and king post above. Inside porch pointed S
door. W end has 2-light pointed window with quatrefoil above, and over
hipped bellcote. To N outshot vestry with pointed lancets and large brick
stack with offsets. Inside has contemporary furnishing and arch braced roof
rising from moulded wallplate with braces from principal rafter to purlin
with filled spandels, giving the effect of arcading above wall plate.

Listing NGR: SP4174427705

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26388086

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)