Description

HEX-HIRE WHITLEY CHAPEL
NY 95 NW

8/202 Church of St. Helen

II

Parish church on medieval site, 1742 with some C19 alterations. Rubble with
tooled dressings; slate roof. Simple rectagular plan with C19 vestry built
onto west end. South wall 5 bays; flush-panelled door with plain fanlight,
in chamfered round-headed arch with moulded impost and raised keystone in bay
2; windows of 2 lights with basket-arched heads. Coped gables with moulded
kneelers. To left, lower vestry with boarded door, in possibly re-set block
surround, and coped gable with corniced end stack. West end has 2 single-
light windows with basket arches, that to right re-set in projecting vestry.
Bellcote with cornice carried up over round-arched opening; North wall has
3 C19 windows each of 2 cinquefoil-headed lights. East end has re-set
medieval window of 3 stepped lancets under chamfered pointed arch, and C19
foliate gable cross.

Interior. C18 font with moulded circular bowl and shaft. Pater board with
pointed head, dated 1858; similar but undated creed and commandments boards.

Listing NGR: NY9280357727

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26297401

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey