Chapel Of Mostyn House School

NESTON

SJ2877 THE PARADE, Parkgate Village 794-1/5/101 (East side) 22/03/74 Chapel of Mostyn House School

GV II*

Collegiate chapel. 1895 with C20 porch extension. By AG Grenfell, Headmaster, for the Mostyn House School; original interior fittings designed by Frederick Fraser of Warrington. MATERIALS: Ruabon red brick in English garden-wall bond on weathered plinth; window dressings and eaves frieze of terracotta; red tile roof with ridge cresting, stone coped west gable and finial on east end. PLAN: nave and chancel continuous, with eastern apse, western bellcote and porch extension. EXTERIOR: building articulated by 2-stage gabled buttresses and encircled by eaves frieze and 4-course deep moulded cornice. Nave and chancel windows are of 2 cinquefoiled lights with quatrefoils in the head beneath 2-centred hoodmoulds. Apse windows are of 3 similar lights with traceried heads and hoodmoulds. West porch link-unit gives access to the chapel from the school and externally via a 2-centred north doorway. This supports octagonal bellcote pierced by a trefoiled opening to each face, raised on square pedestal with 2-light windows to three faces, and surmounted by octagonal spirelet with finial. Further west, an exposed iron girder bellframe supports a 31-bell carillon which is a memorial to the 1914-1918 War. INTERIOR: 5-bay nave and chancel articulated by tall slim shafts rising from corbels and supporting hammer beam roof. Apse, nave and west end are panelled, apse incorporating four canopied niches. West end has panelled door in moulded 2-centred door arch flanked at outer edges by lancet windows and glazed cinquefoil in gable apex. Roof has arch braced hammer beams carry armorial shields at the beam ends; ceiling is of raking boards. FITTINGS: altar table flanked by chaplain's and reader's desks, low communion rail and original benches by F Fraser. Later seating has traceried pew ends and fronts of slender wrought iron rails incorporating bosses of various designs. All exposed surfaces of dado panelling and backs of seats carry brass plates giving the names of former students. Original eagle lectern by H Hems of Exeter and wall mounted pipe organ with crocketed cresting at west end. STAINED GLASS: apse glass by Morton and Co. of Liverpool

representing the Seven Virtues and based on a design by Sir J Reynolds for New College, Oxford. From the west the second and fourth north windows and all south windows have stained glass by Robert Anning Bell dating from 1897 to 1921. West end lancets are memorial windows.

Listing NGR: SJ2803777952