The Chantry

WEST SCRAFTON WEST SCRAFTON SE 08 SE 7/151 The Chantry GV II

Chantry chapel, now house. C15 in origin, with late C17 - early C18 and later alterations. Rubble, stone slate roof. 1 storey, now 2 storeys with partial rear outshut, 3 first-floor windows. Quoins. Near centre, part- glazed 4-panel door in quoined, slightly-chamfered ashlar surround with inscription on lintel " FAB". To right, part-glazed 4-panel door below deep lintel. First bay: C20 3-light casement window in chamfered ashlar surround on ground floor; 16-pane sash window on first floor. In centre, small casement staircase window. Third bay: C20 casement window on ground floor, 16-pane sash window on first floor. At right end, projection where C15 right return wall leans forward. Stacks at left end and between second and third bays. Rear: ground-floor single-light window in chamfered surround. Right return: C15. Quoins. Pointed-arched window of 2 trefoiled lights with Perpendicular tracery above and hoodmould. Interior: in room to left, ashlar fireplace with segmental-arched keyed lintel incised to give joggled effect, and very large, square-section slightly-chamfered beams; in room to right, ashlar fireplce with cyma reversa corbels supporting slightly-arched lintel; straight-flight stone staircase in centre; C15 window has splayed reveals and round-arched lintel. The building is thought to have been a chantry chapel served by canons of Coverham Abbey.

Listing NGR: SE0734383668