Becket’s Chapel

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TG1001 655-1/8/43

WYMONDHAM CHURCH STREET (North side) No 2 (Becket’s Chapel)

(Formerly listed as County Library, previously Listed as: CHURCH STREET (North side) Beckett Chapel)

29/12/50

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Chapel founded 1174, school post-Reformation, restored 1873 and opened as public hall, was county branch library.

Re-fenestrated late C14, re-roofed late C15. Flint with ashlar dressings. Roof of black glazed pantiles. Nave with continuous chancel and former two-bay south nave aisle, blocked in brick. Moulded south doorway with plank door. Above is a two-light arched window and another clerestory-level window is to east. Nave defined by two stepped buttresses. Three-light perpendicular chancel south window with hollow-chamfered continuous mouldings. Angle buttresses to east end flanking a similar, smaller, three-light east window. North side similar, but with three Perpendicular windows under stilted arches. West window also of three lights with a stilted arch, also Perpendicular. Gabled roof. To south at west end is a two-storey brick gabled structure sparsly lit through rectangular windows.

INTERIOR. Tall west arch: wave-moulded and with a deep casement filled with carved fleurons. Some fleurons on north side unfinished. Former two-bay south aisle with a polygonal central pier. Double hollow-chamfered arches. Seven-bay hammerbeam roof, diminishing in width to east. Chamfered hammer posts with arched braces to wall posts on timber corbels. Chamfered pendants. Arched braces to collars. Principals and two tiers moulded butt purlins. Ogeed trefoil piscina to south-east corner has a crocket.

Listing NGR: TG1087601562