Chapel Range

NZ 10 SE ASKE ASKE PARK

10/9 Chapel range (formerly listed as Old Stable Court Range at 4.2.69 Aske Hall)

GV II*

Stables, now chapel, flat and storage. 1763, with alterations of 1887. By John Carr for Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1887 work by Thomas Oliver of Newcastle for the 3rd Earl of Zetland. Ashlar sandstone, Westmorland slate roof. 2 storeys with a basement to the south side. 2:1:3:1:2 bays, the single bays projecting slightly and rising into turrets with an extra storey. North elevation: plinth. Ground floor: continuous rounded arcade with archivolts and impost band, all now infilled in matching stonework with central, leaved, C19 6-panel door below 4-pane overlight in architrave with pulvinated frieze and modillion cornice; the other bays each with sash window with glazing bars and joggled lintel. First floor: 8-pane sash windows with joggled lintels. Modillion cornice. Balustraded parapet between the turrets, continues blind across them. Hipped roof to main range. Turrets have an oculus and hipped roof. Rear: basement has, in first turret, a doorway with flat arch flanked on each side by 2 sash windows with glazing bars, the rest blank. Arcaded main floor has in each bay a sash window with glazing bars with joggled lintel. Attic storey has 6-pane sash windows with joggled lintels, the cornice, parapet and turrets as north-west side. Left return: made apsidal when chapel formed, and with matching attic windows. Interior: chapel to left of entrance in Italianate style with marble dado and paired Corinthian pilasters, ornate cornice, and classical window surrounds with stained-glass "shutters"; the ceiling is a barrel vault divided into bays by decorated arches, and with side intersecting vaults from attic windows and triple vault over apsidal liturgical east (actually north-east) end. The interior achieves a most successful conversion into a private chapel. John Harris, "The Dundas Empire", Apollo magazine, September 1967. In front of the north-west elevation is a cobbled forecourt.

Listing NGR: NZ1777603442