Red House School Chapel

SE 55 NW MOOR MONKTON HALL LANE (south side)

2/8 Red House School Chapel (formerly listed as 'fled 8.3.52 House School including Chapel")

GV II *

Chapel. Early C17, consecrated in 1618. For the Slingsby family. Brick in English garden wall bond, ashlar quoins and dressings, Welsh slate roof. Chapel and ante-chapel, rectangular on plan. 2 storeys, open to roof, 3 bays. South facade: quoins to right. 2-light double-chamfered mullion window to left. First floor: three cinquefoiled 3-light windows in square- headed frames. Stepped eaves course. West gable end: round-arched door frame with imposts and keystone, containing original panelled door. Inscription in brick over reads "Pro termino vitae sic non nobis". East gable end: large 3-light Perpendicular window possibly inserted from an earlier building. Interior contains much original carved furniture. Earliest features include the pulpit, poppyhead bench ends, panelled pews, screen to ante-chapel with splat balusters, and consoles supporting gallery. The closed string staircase to the gallery with its bulbous balusters, elaborately carved newels and carved finials symbolic of the family and friends of Sir Henry Slingsby originally formed the main staircase of the Red House. Later C17 altar rail. Pevsner N, Yorkshire: The West Riding, second edition, 1967. Wood G B, The Chapel at Red House, Moor Monkton, Yorkshire, Country Life, Oct 27 1944.

Listing NGR: SE5297857081