Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2068 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Slipper Chapel, Houghton St Giles, Barsham |
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Summary
This 14th century chapel was built in about 1350 to 1380 and was designed for pilgrims to use on their way to Walsingham. The chapel was restored in 1896 and 1934 and at one time was used as a workhouse. It is now a centre of Roman Catholic pilgrimage and has been the National Shrine of Our Lady since 1934.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 9208 3531 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF93NW |
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| Parish: | BARSHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
'Slipper Chapel'.
30 April 1980 Visit.
Name (implying pilgrims walked barefoot from here to Walsingham) has no antiquity although the chapel was designed for pilgrims to use. c.1350-80, much restored in 1896 (until then a cottage stood against it) and 1934.
It was at one time used as a workhouse.
West front has tall window with niche over, and on each side. Doorway below with main niche each side, brick-edged
niches beyond these, and little niches on the edge of the doorframe, suggesting donations made for images at various times. Plinths on gable apex and diagonally at each corner of base.
Square recesses each side of door interior. 2 Decorated windows to south, the eastern one taller. High roof on solid arched brackets partly 15th century and part restored.
Traces of an original 14th century roof on two pitches and a west gallery are said to have been found in the restorations.
Perpendicular piscina (original?). North door, east window and gable all modern. Recent appendages.
E. Rose (NLA).
See (S1) for architect.
Ordnance Survey Records. See photos in (S2).
R. J. Rickett (NAU), 4 June 1990
Monument Types
- CHAPEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- CHAPEL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WORKHOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
- Listed Building
- Listed Building
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TF 9235A. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Mid Norfolk Advertiser. 1987. [Photograph of Slipper Chapel]. 23 July. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1983. £40,000 repairs bill for chapel. 12 August. |
| --- | Article in Serial: Clapham, A. 1951. Report of the Summer Meeting of the Institute at Norwich, 1949. Part III. Norwich: Cathedral, Churches, and Religious and Charitable Foundations: The Slipper Chapel, Houghton in the Dale, near Walsingham. The Archaeological Journal. Vol CVI p 110. p 110. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 93 NW 10 [3]. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 570. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2009. Heavenly buildings. 19 November. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Dereham and Fakenham Times. 1990. Grazing at chapel. 29 June. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1997. [Photograph of Slipper Chapel]. 19 August. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Barsham. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2016. Donor gives £4m to modernise shrine. 12 February. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Fawcett, R. 1980. A Group of Churches by the Architect of Great Walsingham. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXVII Pt III pp 292-294. p 277. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Firth, C. B. 1914. Village Gilds of Norfolk in the Fifteenth Century. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XVIII pp 161-203. p 161. |
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