Description

LANGPORT CP THE HILL
ST4226
11/118
The Hanging Chapel
17.4.59
GV
I

Gateway spanning road with chapel over, latter now Masonic Lodge. C13 origins, mostly C15 work restored in C19. Local
lias stone roughly cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; chapel has plain clay tiled roof between coped gables with
ball finials. Gateway plain, with chamfered pointed arches to ends of through vault, with one small niche in each side
wall of throughway; one buttress on east side; coped parapet all round to encircle walkway. Chapel apparently much
restored, the east gable being rebuilt over a 3-light semi- circular arched window with possibly C18 tracery; chapel
has angled corner buttresses, and in west wall a moulded pointed arched doorway without label. Extensions on south side
of C19/C20, in stone with flat roof. C19 approach stairs in south west corner, with C20 handrail, up to 3-centre arched
doorway set in archway wall. On north side, against gateway wall in garden of east Gate (qv) a small storehouse in lias
stone, in a C12 style. Interior of chapel not accessible normally. Originally Chantry Chapel of Blessed Virgin Mary,
mentioned 1344, became Town Hall 1596-1600, Langport Grammar School 1706-c1790, then an arms store, a Sunday School,
and private uses until it was leased as a Masonic Lodge in 1891. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset No. 273). (VCH,
vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4214226699

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Hanging Chapel at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7738753

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)