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Eaton Chapel North of Eaton Hall

A Grade I Listed Building in Eaton and Eccleston, Cheshire West and Chester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1409 / 53°8'27"N

Longitude: -2.8776 / 2°52'39"W

OS Eastings: 341391

OS Northings: 360776

OS Grid: SJ413607

Mapcode National: GBR 7B.63J4

Mapcode Global: WH88M.R9XY

Plus Code: 9C5V44RC+9X

Entry Name: Eaton Chapel North of Eaton Hall

Listing Date: 2 November 1983

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1330615

English Heritage Legacy ID: 55260

ID on this website: 101330615

Location: Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH4

County: Cheshire West and Chester

Civil Parish: Eaton and Eccleston

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Eccleston St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Chester

Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival

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Description


SJ 4160 EATON C.P. EATON PARK

9/64 Eaton Chapel north
of Eaton Hall

I

Private Chapel, 1873-84, by Alfred Waterhouse for 1st Duke of
Westminster. Buff sandstone with grey slate roof. Lofty 5 bay nave
and continuing 3 bay apsed chancel. Early French 6-stage tower with
corbelled clock-chamber surmounted by a short gabled and pinnacled
spire, linked to the chapel by a 2 storey wing with a bridge above.
Octagonal stair turret with spire at ritual north-west corner of nave.
Geometrical bar tracery to chapel windows; tall recessed paired lancet
bell openings in tower. Interior, of buff and pink banded stone, is
rib vaulted with gilt bosses. Slender shafting accentuates the height
of nave and chancel. A low timber-vaulted narthex across the ritual
west bay carries a gallery. The blank north arcade contains mosaics
by Frederick Shields, 1884. Stained glass of biblical scenes and
characters by Shields was commissioned 1886 and made by Heaton Butler
& Bayne. Recumbant effigy of Constance, Duchess (died 1884) by Boehm.
Marble steps and floor to chancel, marble altar and pulpit, brass
altar rail and bronze chandelier, all ornate. Patterned polychrome
nave floor and carved oak pews. In Waterhouse's great design for
Eaton Hall, the Chapel was the fulcrum between the Hall (demolished)
and the stable wing: the exterior is finely composed and the richly
designed and furnished interior is complete. cf. St James the Less,
Lillington Gardens, Westminster by G E Street 1860's and St Elisabeth,
Reddish, Stockport 1882-3 by Waterhouse. See Pevsner & Hubbard.


Listing NGR: SJ4138560776

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