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1881 Chapel at Convent of St John the Baptist

A Grade II* Listed Building in Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4766 / 51°28'35"N

Longitude: -0.6307 / 0°37'50"W

OS Eastings: 495191

OS Northings: 176180

OS Grid: SU951761

Mapcode National: GBR F8K.9CZ

Mapcode Global: VHFTG.04XW

Plus Code: 9C3XF9G9+JP

Entry Name: 1881 Chapel at Convent of St John the Baptist

Listing Date: 2 October 1975

Last Amended: 5 May 2000

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1380282

English Heritage Legacy ID: 480143

ID on this website: 101380282

Location: Clewer New Town, Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL4

County: Windsor and Maidenhead

Electoral Ward/Division: Clewer East

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Windsor

Traditional County: Berkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire

Church of England Parish: Clewer St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


SU 97 NE HATCH LANE
Clewer
747/8/160
1881 Chapel at Convent of
St John the Baptist
02.10.1975
II*


Chapel of Anglican convent. 1881; by Henry Woodyer. Red brick. Steeply-pitched slate roof with gabled and hipped ends.
PLAN: Tall 5-bay nave with aisles, chancel and apse.
EXTERIOR: Long and tall chancel with polygonal apse with pierced brick parapet, buttresses with crocketed pinnacles to apse and tall moulded brick 3-light windows with Geometrical tracery under crocketed gables. The roof of the nave is carried down over aisles with turrets in the angles. West gable end has pair of tall 3-light windows with statue in canopied niche between. Elaborate lead-clad fleche on the ridge of the roof.
INTERIOR: Polychrome brick walls. Lofty nave with stone arcades with tall round piers and moulded pointed arches. Timber roof with cusped arch-braces. Lower vaulted chancel and apse with painted canvas panels to the vault. Tall Gothic carved wooden rood screen. Carved stone reredos, and reredos in south aisle. Stained glass by Hardman. Monument to Canon T.T. Carter [rector of Clever and first warden], 1901 by Bodley, a recumbent effigy under a canopy. Brass of 1883 to Harriet Monsell, the foundress.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.305.

Listing NGR: SU9519176180

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