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Chantry House


  • Address: 34 Church St
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1750/00/00 Chantry House is built in the C18. At two storeyes and an attic, the windows have cambered head linings with intact glazing bars. The principal doorway features pilasters, a pediment, rectangular fanlight and a door of six fielded panels.
1937/04/00 William Butler Yeats Visitor Edmund Dulac and Helen Beauclerc take WB Yeats to visit sisters Nora and Edith Shackleton Heald at their home, the Chantry House, in Steyning. Edith will become WB Yeats' last mistress.
1944/00/00 Artist Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein) and her partner, the Edith Shackleton Heald, live at Chantry House from 1944. Heald died on 4 Nov 1976, and Gluck on 10 Jan 1978. Edith S Heald, a notable journalist, was the first female reporter in the House of Lords.

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Particulars for Chantry House:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Building Type House
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling

Data
English National Heritage List: 1194515



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