The Chantry

NORTH NIBLEY CHURCH LANE ST 7396 (north side) 8/109 The Chantry GV II

Former manorial house or priest's house; now detached house. C15; C17 or C18 addition; restoration and alterations of 1853. Coursed rubble marlstone with limestone ashlar dressings; rubble chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey; projecting 2-storey rear wing with cellar. Front: scattered fenestration of various dates, mostly resulting from 1853 restoration. Off-centre moulded 4-centred arched doorway with quatrefoils in spandrels and bold hoodmould with shield stops; pointed-arched former staircase window over with C14 style tracery and small parapet gable above. Three 3- light moulded C19 mullioned casements to upper floor with trefoil heads. Three-light ground floor casement to right of doorway with Tudor-arched heads and to left, beyond C20 inserted casements, 4- light in similar style. At extreme left-hand end large blocked C15 moulded 4-centred arched opening, probably original entrance; fragment of moulded string course above. Parapet gable at each end of building, north-east end having projecting chimney stack. Single window fenestration to south-west end: C20 ground floor casement with C19 three-light to upper floor with trefoil heads, and possibly original small single-light to attic with trefoil head. Rear: wing projects to left with leaded casement fenestration having timber lintels in end wall, and C19 trefoil- headed casements on south-west side. Remains of projecting lateral chimney stack to rear of main range, now cut down and with C20 casement inserted at upper floor level. To right of chimney, C19 moulded 4-centred arched doorway with hoodmould; 2 upper floor 3- light C19 trefoil-headed casements to right above continuous string course. Interior has large moulded Tudor-arched stone fireplace in hall, possibly late C15. Roof is 5-bay arched braced collar-truss type, mostly concealed by present ceiling, with moulding on inner edge of bracing pegged to principal rafters. Upper floor is probably an insertion. Called The Chantry since C16, but position suggests a manorial use, or possibly a use as a priest's house. In early C19 was used as a school house. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: ST7354196112