L3480 - Wyggeston's Chantry House - Image Leicestershire

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10573

Title

L3480 - Wyggeston's Chantry House

Description

L3480 - This ivy-clad building was built in about 1511/12 by William Wyggeston, Leicester's richest citizen, and greatest benefactor. It was used to house two ('chantry') priests who sang masses for his soul in the nearby church of St. Mary of the Annunciation. The chapel was demolished soon after its closure in 1548, but the Chantry House survives as the only Elizabethan urban gentry house in the country. It has undergone some changes over the years - originally a two storey building, the third floor was added in the later sixteenth century. The Chantry House was used largely as a private dwelling until 1940 when it was damaged by bombing in the Second World War. However, for a period of time around the turn of the twentieth century it was used as an office by Henry Lovatt, head of the contraction company responsible for the creation of the Great Central Line through Leicester (note the sign next to the door). Restored in the 1950s, Wyygeston's Chantry House now forms part of Newarke Houses museum.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L3480.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

IM&ICT - RC
Original media type: Glass plate negative

Exhibitions with this image

L3480 - This ivy-clad building was built in about 1511/12 by William Wyggeston, Leicester's richest citizen, and greatest benefactor. It was used to house two ('chantry') priests who sang masses for his soul in the nearby church of St. Mary of the Annunciation. The chapel was demolished soon after its closure in 1548, but the Chantry House survives as the only Elizabethan urban gentry house in the country. It has undergone some changes over the years - originally a two storey building, the third floor was added in the later sixteenth century. The Chantry House was used largely as a private dwelling until 1940 when it was damaged by bombing in the Second World War. However, for a period of time around the turn of the twentieth century it was used as an office by Henry Lovatt, head of the contraction company responsible for the creation of the Great Central Line through Leicester (note the sign next to the door). Restored in the 1950s, Wyygeston's Chantry House now forms part of Newarke Houses museum.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

More information about these photographs and the Great Central Railway can be found here

Subjects

Transport

Transport > Rail

Working Life

Working Life > Industrial

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