Description

SJ 55 SW EGERTON SHAY LANE

4/9 Remains of Chapel, west
12.1.67 of Egerton Hall

GV II

Chapel ruin, C14 (Ormerod). Hammer dressed, coursed red sandstone
with rubble corework. Remains of three walls, mainly 2 storeys in
height. Single ground and first floor window openings, one above the
other. These have wide splayed reveals internally and narrower
splayed reveals with glazing grooves externally. There are holes in
the reveals for saddlebars and stooling for a single mullion in the
ground floor window. Window heads are missing but were probably flat.
Doorway with flat head supported by oak lintel internally and dowelled
frame of two posts and lintel externally. There is a twice-reducing
buttress to the north wall. There is a projecting, fireplace-like,
recess with twice-splayed cheeks and shouldered lintel arrangement in
the inside face of the north wall. A quantity of slate has been used
for levelling and packing sills, etc.

Listing NGR: SJ5182450559

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26615223

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)