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Latitude: 51.5194 / 51°31'9"N
Longitude: -0.1124 / 0°6'44"W
OS Eastings: 531065
OS Northings: 181739
OS Grid: TQ310817
Mapcode National: GBR L9.XJ
Mapcode Global: VHGR0.02GL
Plus Code: 9C3XGV9Q+P3
Entry Name: The Chapel, Gray's Inn Square
Listing Date: 24 October 1951
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1322148
English Heritage Legacy ID: 477459
ID on this website: 101322148
Location: Holborn, Camden, London, WC1R
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Holborn and Covent Garden
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Alban Holborn
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Chapel
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GRAY'S INN (South side)
The Chapel, Gray's Inn Square
24/10/51
GV
II
Chapel. c1955 by Sir Edward Maufe incorporating C17 fabric listed in 1951. Reconstruction of basically C17 building bombed in the Second World War. The building has been extended eastwards and re-roofed with a new bellcote. Brick with stone dressings. Tile roof with octagonal bellcote and clock at west end. Single storey, five-bay rectangular, aisleless plan. North facade only visible, with three three-light windows and doorway in C16 manner at west end.
INTERIOR: three-bay nave and narrower two-bay chancel and sanctuary. Concrete ribbed roof, chancel with trabeated panels. Chancel with five-light cusped traceried east window filled with reset glass of c1895. Organ in elaborate case with carved decoration. three nave windows with three-light cusped tracery and reset glass of 1895 commemorating four Archbishops of Canterbury associated with Gray's Inn. Chancel stalls, altar, floor, and other fittings all c1955 by Maufe, including the pulpit, lectern and pews of maple wood donated by the Canadian Bar Association. Three-light window in south-east corner of nave, looking on to internal passage, with capitals in unmistakably Maufe style. Pendant hanging lights c1955. War memorials to fallen benchers of both World Wars. Forms a continuous composition with the Hall (qv) as the centrepiece of Gray's Inn.
Listing NGR: TQ3106581739
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