Magdalen College Chapel Of Saints John And James is a Grade II* listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 1950. A Medieval Chapel.
Magdalen College Chapel Of Saints John And James
- WRENN ID
- white-bonework-wind
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 1950
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BRACKLEY HIGH STREET 1. 5328 (East Side) Magdalen College Chapel of Saints John and James SP 5836 1/37 22.4.50. SP 5837 2/37 II* GV 2. Founded by Robert ("Le Bossu") Earl of Leicester, who died in 1168, as the chapel of St John's Hospital (see Doyle, Off Baronage II, 336). Now used as Magdalen College School Chapel. Nave of ashlar and coursed rubble with a tower on the north-west. The west end exterior has a reset C12 door with, above it, a 3-light C13 window on each side of which are moulded niches each with a seated figure; the top of this gable end has been rebuilt. The whole chapel was restored in 1746 and (twice) in C19. The work done at the latter time for Canon Thickness, vicar, by a Mr Buckeridge, architect, is described in "A History of Brackley" by A Green, 1869.
Listing NGR: SP5859837003
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