Description

BRAMHAM CUM OGLETHORPE BRAMHAM PARK
SE404L
7/33 LS23 Chapel at north end
30.3.66 of terrace to rear
of Bramham Park
(Formerly listed as
Chapel)

GV I

Chapel, formerly summer house. 1750-62, by James Paine, for George Fox Lane.
Magnesian limestone ashlar, stone slate roof. Classical style. Pedimented single
cell of 2 storeys and 3 bays with tetrastyle Ionic porch covering full width
of ground floor and single-storey semioctagonal wings to the return walls. Porch
mounted on 3 steps has entablature, dentilled cornice, parapet balustraded in
each bay; ground floor beneath porch has a round-headed doorway with double doors
(upper panels glazed) and fanlight with radiating glazing bars, and tall 12-
pane sashed windows with balustrades beneath; 1st floor has a square window with
glazing bars flanked by square blind windows. Each wing has a plinth, a large
coved niche in each diagonal wall, with a low balustrade, the coping of which
runs out as a string course round the whole, a dentilled cornice with low parapet,
and a semi-pyramidal roof, at the apex of which is a small window at 1st floor
of the return wall. Interior: distyle Ionic screen (of scagliola) to each side
bay, with entablature and dentilled cornice carried round the whole interior,
including a semicircular-arched sanctuary in the rear wall; vaulted ceiling with
slender moulded plaster decoration; in each side bay a statue (Lord Bingley and
his daughter, by Agostino Carlini, 1771: Pevsner).

Listing NGR: SE4077641815

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530495

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy