Building record 0107601000 - LISCOMBE HOUSE (THE CHAPEL)

Summary

Fourteenth century chapel incorporated into house as billiard room in the nineteenth century

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1219385: CHAPEL AT LISCOMBE HOUSE (DBC3951)

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Type and Period (1)

  • CHANTRY CHAPEL (14th Century to 19th Century - 1300 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Dimensions - Length 0012 m Width 0006
Plan Form - RECTANGULAR
Grade II. Former chapel, now disused billiard room. C14, altered. Greensand rubble with clunch dressing, brick buttresses and stepped gables, and old tile roof. 2 bays of 2-light Decorated windows, partly restored, with additional cusped lancet high at W. end of S. wall. 3-light Decorated E. window, the interior with shafts and foliage caps restored C19. W. side has altered entry with double doors in flat headed wooden architrave frame, blocked window with segmental head above, and round cusped window in gable. Interior: arch-braced roof, part ceiled; C17 dado panelling; fragments of heraldic stained glass in E. window. RCHM II p. 268 on. 3 (part) (B10).
LICENCE 1304, TO FOUND CHANTRY IN NEWLY-BUILT CHAPEL IN MANOR HOUSE (B3).
NGR TO CHAPEL (B11).

Sources (13)

  • ---SBC18901 Aerial Photograph: 12/12/46. RAF 42.4282. SP\885257. Yes.
  • <1>SBC7700 Bibliographic reference: LIPSCOMB 3 P467.
  • <2>SBC14296 Bibliographic reference: SHEAHAN P749.
  • <3>SBC13090 Bibliographic reference: RCHM BUCKS 2 PP268-9.
  • <4>SBC15770 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 3 PP415-6.
  • <5>SBC1680 Bibliographic reference: BERESFORD MW NOTES ON BUCKS DMV'S(IN CASS FILE 000 0; ALSO BERESFORD MW &HURST JG 1971 DESERTED MEDI.
  • <6>SBC11722 Bibliographic reference: PEVSNER N 1960 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE P189.
  • <7>SBC10950 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SP82 NE 1(NOT RETAINED); & OS FIELD INVESTIGATION 1974.
  • <8>SBC175 Aerial Photograph: RAF 58 Squadron. 1946. RAF AIR PHOTO (RUN 42, PRINT 4282). SP88452257. Yes.
  • <9>SBC7997 Bibliographic reference: LOWTHER PC 1981(AUG) (SEE HER SOULBURY PARISH SURV EY, PP27-28 &FIG 18, IN CAS FILE 2763.
  • <10>SBC19252 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury Vale District: Parishes of Aston Abbotts &C.
  • <11>SBC10476 Map: OS 1978 1:2500 MAP.
  • <12>SBC5059 Verbal communication: Mike Farley (BCM). 1991. PERS COMM FOLLOWING FIELD VISIT, MARCH 1991.

Location

Grid reference SP 88606 25700 (point)
Civil Parish SOULBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC1359)

Record last edited

Jan 31 2018 12:29PM

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