Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27SW ABBEY APPROACH
708-1/4/5 Capella Extra Portas with attached
06/05/76 walls

GV I

Ruined chapel. c1300. Red ashlar sandstone, no roof. Single
vessel, 5x1 bays. Plinth. Moulded string course, at impost of
round-arched south door, continues to right across buttresses
between former 3-light windows with pointed cusped arches,
geometrical tracery removed. Bay 4 occupied by broad gabled
projection (rear of sedilia). To left of south door the string
course rises over the scar of a wing wall of which only the
foundations remain. West door has keeled round arch with
carved hood stops; niche and string course over. Buttresses
flank ruined east window. INTERIOR: triple sedilia with one
trefoil shaft remaining, the arched recesses beneath hooded
panel with gablets and torch finials; piscina and credence to
left. Statue base to left of east window. Situated outside the
abbey precinct and used by dependents of the monastery and
others who did not normally worship in the abbey church (qv).
Adjoining archways listed separately (qv).
(Dickenson J C: Furness Abbey: London: 1987-: 11).

Listing NGR: SD2180171980

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530448

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)