Litten Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. A C16 Chapel.
Litten Chapel
- WRENN ID
- crooked-bracket-cedar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Litten Chapel is an early 16th-century building that features the remains of the chapel of the old hospital of St Bartholomew. It is attached to Litten House, which now serves as the Newbury Commercial School. The chapel is a single-storey rectangular structure that was shortened at the east end around 1825 when Newtown Road was widened. A modern brick extension with a catslide roof has been added to the north-west corner. The building has a tiled roof, flint rubble walls, and a brick east gable end, with some elements made of Bath stone.
Originally, each side wall had two windows. The north side features windows with two cinque-foiled, four-centred lights and spandrels under a square head, although the north-west window was converted into a doorway in 1947. The south-west window has two plain, four-centred lights in a square head, while the south-east window has been replaced by a modern arched doorway with a hood mould. The east window, added in 1825, has six arched lights.
Inside, the chapel contains two richly-carved and moulded queen-post trusses, although the tie-beams have been removed.
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