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St Peters Convent Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Horbury, Wakefield

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6628 / 53°39'46"N

Longitude: -1.5567 / 1°33'24"W

OS Eastings: 429387

OS Northings: 418572

OS Grid: SE293185

Mapcode National: GBR KVK2.RQ

Mapcode Global: WHCB5.16ZC

Plus Code: 9C5WMC7V+48

Entry Name: St Peters Convent Chapel

Listing Date: 6 May 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1313233

English Heritage Legacy ID: 342502

ID on this website: 101313233

Location: Hall Cliffe, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4

County: Wakefield

Electoral Ward/Division: Horbury and South Ossett

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Horbury

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Horbury St Peter and St Leonard

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


SE2918 HORBURY DOVECOTE LANE
(south side)


9/9 St. Peter's Convent
Chapel


GV II


Convent chapel. 1869-71 by Henry Woodyer, the north transept possibly later;
the south chapel dated 1898. Red brick with yellow, sandstone ashlar bands
offsets and dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Nave of approx. 6 slender bays
with apsidal east end and north and south transepts, the latter with the 1898
3-bay chapel extending eastwards. The building is buttressed and has tall,
slender lancets, at high level, with single roll mouldings except to the apse
where the mouldings are of 2 orders. The windows in the centre of the apse
are shorter where they step-up over a relief crucifix in brick. On the south
side is a lean-to addition, with arcaded brick moulding, forming a corridor.
The south transept has a projecting chimney breast which crosses from the
right to the centre using corbels and rises to a small, lateral, diagonally-
set stack at the half-hipped roof. The 1898 chapel has 2-light windows with
Decorated tracery and a flat roof. The north transept is gabled and has a
wheel window in the apex. The west gable has a larger wheel window. The
building is attached at the west end to further convent buildings (q.v.).
Interior: wooden screen at west end with small gallery above for the organ.
Steeply-pitched arch-braced and arch wind-braced roof, semi-domed over the
apse with radiating ribs. Early English Gothic arcading at high level on
engaged colonnettes. The south transept is reached through a cusped doorway
and has imported early oak panelling. The gallery above has the arcading
continuing across its front. Stained glass by Powell (designed by Bell)
1871, and the west window by Kempe 1888-94 (Pevsner). The east windows have
abstract coloured glass in the modern idiom.
N. Pevsner. The Buildings of England. 1967.


Listing NGR: SE2938718572

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