Litten Chapel

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SU 4666 NE 7/132

NEWBURY NEWTOWN ROAD (west side) Litten Chapel

[Formerly listed as Litten Chapel (Part of the Newbury Commercial School). Previously listed under Argyle Road]

29.9.50

GV II*

Early C16 remains of the chapel of the old hospital of St Bartholomew. Attached on west side to Litten House, now the Newbury Commercial School. Single storey rectangular building shortened at the east end in circa 1825 when Newtown Road was widened under the Newbury and Speenhamland Improvement Act. A modern brick extension has been added to the north-west corner of the building with a catslide roof. Tiled roof. Flint rubble walls and brick east gable end. Bath stone elements. Each side wall originally with two windows; on north side each with two cinque-foiled, four-centred lights with spandrels under a square head with label (the north-west window converted for use as doorway in 1947); south-west window of two plain, four-centred lights in a square head (the south-east window replaced by a modern arched doorway with a hood mould). East window with six arched lights of 1825. Modern doorway from house.

Interior with two richly-carved and moulded queen-post trusses, for which the tie-beams have been removed.

Listing NGR: SU4693866605