Survey Data
Reg No
20509086
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Church/chapel
Date
1875 - 1885
Coordinates
169322, 71306
Date Recorded
13/03/1993
Date Updated
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Description
Gothic style Catholic chapel, built 1881, with projecting porches, ancillary two-storey accommodation and small belfry. Steeply pitched roof with decorative contrasting slate bands. Copper flashings to verges. Decorative bay ridge tiles. Brick chimney stacks. Painted render finish to west elevation. Squared random limestone with red brick banding and dressings to north elevation. Lancet windows to gable front with oculus above road elevation has Gothic arch windows with brick tympanums. Triple lancet east window. Stained glass c. 1980. To interior, steeply pitched hammer beam roof; gallery with cast iron balustrade; painted rendered walls.
Appraisal
Intact late nineteenth-century chapel with a variety of building materials contributing to a typical decorative late nineteenth-century appearance. Distinctive also for its snecked stonework. Associated with the adjacent seminary.