Description

TL 85 NE
5/87
14.7.55

STANNINGFIELD
COLDHAM HALL LANE
Former Roman Catholic Chapel, 5 metres east of Coldham Hall
(Formerly listed with Coldham Hall as Chapel)

GV
II*

Former Roman Catholic chapel, c.1800. Red brick; the rear of flint rubble with
red brick quoins. Hipped slated roof with parapet on the garden side. 3
mullioned and transomed limestone windows on each long wall, of 6 lights, with
hexagonal and diamond leaded panes; in each window a central roundel with a
stained glass figure of one of the 12 apostles. 2 framed entrance doors in the
end wall with applied nail-head ornament; matching doors at the opposite end
flanking the altar. Some fine plasterwork in the Gothick manner; apsidal
sanctuary lit from above, framed by an arched opening with plaster architrave
and flanking pilasters having obelisk finials; on the opposite end wall a
matching blank arch with pilasters. Pilasters also at each bay, supporting
timber beams with matchboarded panelled ceiling. Included as Grade II* because
a rare and good example of a Roman Catholic chapel built before the Roman
Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829.

Listing NGR: TL8643255857

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526716

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version