Friarside Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1950. A Medieval Chapel.

Friarside Chapel

WRENN ID
hollow-string-primrose
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1950
Type
Chapel
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Friarside Chapel is a Grade II* listed chapel, dating from the 14th century and later. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone in various colors, featuring an ashlar plinth and dressings, along with an addition of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The chapel was roofless at the time of the survey and includes a chancel with a west addition, designed in the Decorated style.

The chancel has two bays and features a wide segmental arch on the south side, which has a wide chamfer and a double-chamfered head. To the left, there is a low ogee-headed doorway recessed under a flat stone lintel, and to the right of the door is a two-centred-arched window with tracery. The large two-centred-arched east window has lost its tracery, but there is a quatrefoil above it in the gable peak. The west addition contains a plain rectangular west light with splayed reveals, while the north elevation is blank. The original building has a chamfered plinth, and angle buttresses have been removed from the east end.

Inside, there is a cusped piscina under an ogee head in the south wall, and there is no internal division between the different construction phases. The chapel is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

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