Listed Building: CHAPEL AT ST BARTHOLOMEW'S FARM (275913)

1/2 In the entry for: Chapel of St Bartholomew Bartholomew's Farm The address shall be amended to read: ST BARTHOLOMEW'S LANE Chapel at St Bartholomew's Priory Farm The grade shall be upgraded to 11*, the building shall be included for Group Value (GV), the description shall be amended to read:- Chapel, now outbuilding. Early C15. Uncoursed flint rubble; gabled old tile roof. Rectangular single-cell plan. Offset diagonal corner buttresses and offset buttress to centre of 2-bay north and south eleva- tions. Most window tracery has been lost. Moulded Tudor-arched architraves to east window, which has remains of cusped Perpendicular tracery to head; hood moulds with head stops over moulded 2-centred arched windows to north and south, with remains of cusped Perpendicular tracery to heads; hood mould over ancient studded door Set in moulded 2-centred architrave to west of south elevation; moulded Tudor-arched architrave to west window, which has Cl9 brick to head. Interior: complete trussed rafter roof of uniform scantling with no longitudinal support. History: this chapel served the cell or grange of the Benedictine Westminster Abbey, in existence on this site from 1115 to 1538; there is also a C14 barn (q.v.) and post-dissolution farmhouse on the site; the prior's lodging was demolished in 1779. (C F D Sperling, A Short History of Sudbury, 1896) 1. Chapel of St Bartholomew, 1692 Bartholomewls Farm TL 84 SE 1/2 3.3.52 II 2. Approximately quarter mile off Melford Road. The remaining part of a Benedictine Prior established here as a cell to Westminster Abbey during 2nd half reign Henry IV. De-molished 1779. This building early Perpendicular in fairly good state of preservation, though no longer used except for storage (service held once a year until circa 1830). It is a rectangular building of mixed rubble with stone dressings (much defaced) and it has no chancel, aisles, or tower. AM. Listing NGR: TL8709942803