Becket’s Chapel
Becket’s Chapel, 2, Church Street, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 0PH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1297495
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Becket’s Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- Becket’s Chapel, 2, Church Street, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 0PH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1297495
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Becket’s Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Becket’s Chapel, 2, Church Street, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 0PH
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Becket’s Chapel, 2, Church Street, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 0PH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wymondham
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 10876 01562
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 August 2022 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TG1001
655-1/8/43
WYMONDHAM
CHURCH STREET (North side)
No 2 (Becket’s Chapel)
(Formerly listed as County Library, previously Listed as: CHURCH STREET (North side) Beckett Chapel)
29/12/50
I
Chapel founded 1174, school post-Reformation, restored 1873 and opened as public hall, was county branch library.
Re-fenestrated late C14, re-roofed late C15. Flint with ashlar dressings. Roof of black glazed pantiles. Nave with continuous chancel and former two-bay south nave aisle, blocked in brick. Moulded south doorway with plank door. Above is a two-light arched window and another clerestory-level window is to east. Nave defined by two stepped buttresses. Three-light perpendicular chancel south window with hollow-chamfered continuous mouldings. Angle buttresses to east end flanking a similar, smaller, three-light east window. North side similar, but with three Perpendicular windows under stilted arches. West window also of three lights with a stilted arch, also Perpendicular. Gabled roof. To south at west end is a two-storey brick gabled structure sparsly lit through rectangular windows.
INTERIOR. Tall west arch: wave-moulded and with a deep casement filled with carved fleurons. Some fleurons on north side unfinished. Former two-bay south aisle with a polygonal central pier. Double hollow-chamfered arches. Seven-bay hammerbeam roof, diminishing in width to east. Chamfered hammer posts with arched braces to wall posts on timber corbels. Chamfered pendants. Arched braces to collars. Principals and two tiers moulded butt purlins. Ogeed trefoil piscina to south-east corner has a crocket.
Listing NGR: TG1087601562
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386104
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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