Chapel At St Bartholomew'S Priory Farm

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TL 84 SE 1/2 1692 3.3.52

ST BARTHOLOMEW'S LANE Chapel at St Bartholomew's, Priory Farm

(Formerly listed as Chapel of St Bartholomew, Bartholomew's Farm)

GV II*

Chapel, now outbuilding. Early C15. Uncoursed flint rubble; gabled old tile roof. Rectangular single-cell plan. Offset diagonal corner buttresses and offset buttress to centre of 2-bay north and south eleva- tions. Most window tracery has been lost. Moulded Tudor-arched architraves to east window, which has remains of cusped Perpendicular tracery to head; hood moulds with head stops over moulded 2-centred arched windows to north and south, with remains of cusped Perpendicular tracery to heads; hood mould over ancient studded door Set in moulded 2-centred architrave to west of south elevation; moulded Tudor-arched architrave to west window, which has Cl9 brick to head. Interior: complete trussed rafter roof of uniform scantling with no longitudinal support. History: this chapel served the cell or grange of the Benedictine Westminster Abbey, in existence on this site from 1115 to 1538; there is also a C14 barn (q.v.) and post-dissolution farmhouse on the site; the prior's lodging was demolished in 1779. (C F D Sperling, A Short History of Sudbury, 1896)

Listing NGR: TL8709942803