Description

SJ 55 SE FADDILEY C.P. WOODHEY

4/38 Woodhey Chapel (formerly
listed as Woodhey Hall
Chapel)
12 January 196767
I

Private chapel circa 1700 (Pevsner) built against early C17 loggia.
Red brick in Flemish Bond with slate roof. 3-bay nave, single bay
gallery. Moulded stone plinth, rusticated stone quoins. North nave
entrance door, with matching dummy door on the south side. These are
pairs of oak 4-panel doors on "L" hinges in semicircular headed
moulded stone frames with keystones. The fanlight areas are at
gallery level and filled with brickwork. Three timber, semicircular
headed, cross windows to both side of the nave with leaded glazing,
two similar windows to (east) chancel end of chapel. Bullseye
windows, with leaded glazing, in stone frames with four keystones,
surmount the nave doors at gallery level. The loggia is in English
Bond at the west end of the chapel at gallery level, approached up
nine steps. Access to the room below is via wide oak boarded door
(north) on ornamental strap hinges in a stone dressed opening. The
loggia facade faces west and consists of an arcade of three segmental
archivolts supported by Roman Doric columns. There is a strapwork
decorated frieze and overhanging moulded cornice. There are single
2-light mullion windows, in moulded stone frames in the north and
south flanking walls. A door in the south wall leads to stone steps
to ground level and there is a similar flight, to roof level, at the
south west corner externally. A pair of oak bolection moulded and
fielded panel doors, on HL hinges lead from the loggia to the chapel
gallery. There is a moulded eaves cornice to the chapel and a wide
soffite. The roof is hipped with sandstone hips and ridge. The
loggia roof is a continuation of the west chapel roof slope, but with
reduced pitch and parapet gutter behind the frieze and cornice.
Interior: The east windows flank the carved pedimented reredos which
is inscribed with the Ten Commandments in gold. This is fronted by a
square panelled oak pulpit with carved fruit and leaf motifs and a
moulded cornice. The pulpit has a flat circular base and ogee support
brackets to a single turned column support. Two-panel-deep panelling
to all walls, up to window sill level, with plastering above. Two
tier oak panelled stalls to north and south walls and single row along
west wall. Coved plastered ceiling below gallery. The oak cased,
pulvinated, gallery beam is separated from the panelled gallery rail
by a cornice. The gallery has oak pews, fireplace openings in
north-west and south-west corners and an oak screen parallel to, and a
short distance away from the west wall. The screen has grilles of
split cane and separates the wall seat used by the servants from the
Woodhey Hall family pews. The plastered ceiling of the chapel and
gallery is formed into thirty panels by slender timber mouldings.

A handsome and intact example of a chapel from a period when few were
built.

Listing NGR: SJ5732552792

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Woodhey Chapel, Faddiley at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q8032729

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey