Chapel At North End Of Terrace To Rear Of Bramham Park

BRAMHAM CUM OGLETHORPE BRAMHAM PARK SE404L 7/33 LS23 Chapel at north end 30.3.66 of terrace to rear of Bramham Park (Formerly listed as Chapel)

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Chapel, formerly summer house. 1750-62, by James Paine, for George Fox Lane. Magnesian limestone ashlar, stone slate roof. Classical style. Pedimented single cell of 2 storeys and 3 bays with tetrastyle Ionic porch covering full width of ground floor and single-storey semioctagonal wings to the return walls. Porch mounted on 3 steps has entablature, dentilled cornice, parapet balustraded in each bay; ground floor beneath porch has a round-headed doorway with double doors (upper panels glazed) and fanlight with radiating glazing bars, and tall 12- pane sashed windows with balustrades beneath; 1st floor has a square window with glazing bars flanked by square blind windows. Each wing has a plinth, a large coved niche in each diagonal wall, with a low balustrade, the coping of which runs out as a string course round the whole, a dentilled cornice with low parapet, and a semi-pyramidal roof, at the apex of which is a small window at 1st floor of the return wall. Interior: distyle Ionic screen (of scagliola) to each side bay, with entablature and dentilled cornice carried round the whole interior, including a semicircular-arched sanctuary in the rear wall; vaulted ceiling with slender moulded plaster decoration; in each side bay a statue (Lord Bingley and his daughter, by Agostino Carlini, 1771: Pevsner).

Listing NGR: SE4077641815