Description

SK 75 NE
7/152

KELHAM
AVERHAM ROAD off (east side)
Former Monastic buildings adjoining Kelham Hall

GV
II
Former monastic buildings and chapel, now offices and function room. Designed 1927-29 by Charles Clayton Thompson. Brick and concrete. Three ranges of buildings around a courtyard with the chapel to the north.

Two storey, seven bay south range, has plain tile roof with two stacks. South front has four three-light cross casements, then two similar two-light casements and a round arched entrance, glazed with double glazed doors. About four similar three-light casements in through eaves, half-hipped dormers, and then a pair of gabled dormers each with a similar two-light casement. The final bay has a tiny two-light casement. The courtyard front has two-light cross casements on the ground floor, and two-light casements above. The main, west range, three storey plus attics, has a plain tile half-hipped roof and three ridge stacks. West front, ten bays with two projecting blocks with hipped roofs. The round headed entrance archway, has a single and a two-light cross casement to the left, and to the right a two-light, a single and then a further two-light window, with beyond two, three-light windows, then three altered windows, and finally a single three-light window, all cross casements. Above similar fenestration, with a three-light cross casement over the entrance. Above again similar fenestration through with four through eaves, half-hipped dormers. This range has similar fenestration on the courtyard front.

Chapel: south entrance front, has to the west a two storey link with two round arches and above three round headed windows. Symmetrical front has a central section topped by a round arched parapet, with tall brick side buttresses and single bay wings. Central entrance reached up four steps, has round headed doorway with five round arches, and double panel doors. Above seven tall, round headed lancets, each with a round headed panel, those in the centre taller. The side wings have single round headed panels, with a casement and above a round headed window in each. The incomplete west front is partly weatherboarded. The north front has a canted apse with two small lancets.

Interior, has central square space roofed with high brick lined dome supported on four side arches, with stepped corner arches. The north side has a brick rood arch, and the other sides have pairs of round arches supporting galleries, over the aisles. The interior retains some of its original choir stalls, and gallery and staircase balustrades.

Listing NGR: SK7738255564

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26298056

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)