NHER 9301 (Building record) - Post medieval 'Slipper Chapel' garden house

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Summary

This is the southern of two garden houses that once belonged to Bawburgh Hall (NHER 9299). The other is NHER 9300. This 17th century building has four tall gables with round recesses. Inside are a series of wooden seats. It has been called the Slipper Chapel and legends has it that pilgrims left their shoes here and walked barefoot to the holy well of St Wulstan (NHER 9298). The age and style of the building, however, sugggest it is more likely to have been a summerhouse in the grounds of the hall.

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Map sheet	TG10NE
Civil Parish	BAWBURGH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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13 October 1976. Visit.
'Slipper House'.
Southern of two garden houses of c.1634. Four tall gables with round recesses; frieze of circles cut by large blocked
window to east, other windows with wooden mullions (some blocked now with cement), and clamp irons forming initials 'LS' (presumably Stafford). Brick round-headed doorways, open to north, blocked to south. Wooden seats inside. On west side a strange circular stone carving with central hole, near floor. In very poor condition.
E. Rose (NAU).

See (S1) (pre 1992) as large rolled plans.
E. Rose (NAU).

September 2013. Several visits from 1985
Repaired in 1981. A Jacobean baqueting house. For defintion see (NHER 9300). It had an upper storey with an external staircase. It is built of re-used Caen stone ashlar which came no doubt from the shrine of St Wulstan. Commonly called 'slipper chapel' to associate it with the medieval pilgrimage to the shrine. See (S2) and (NHER 9300) for details .
S. Heywood (HES). 12 September 2013

Associated Sources (10)

--- SNF43 Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF74.
--- SNF7576 Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 197.
--- SNF94912 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1980. Homes to enclose monuments. 7 February.
--- SNF82111 Photograph: 1990-2. Photographs of the Garden House, Bawburgh.. Colour, B&W.
--- SNF89829 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Post-Medieval. Bawburgh.
--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 10 NE 7 [2].
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF8805 *Rolled Plan: Large Plan Exists.
<S2> SNF89833 Unpublished Document: Heywood, S. 2012. Bawburgh monuments, Hall Farm Place, Bawburgh.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

BANQUETING HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Bawburgh (Parish Summary)

Record last edited

Jul 17 2018 10:55AM