Memorial Chapel

The Memorial Chapel is a Unitarian chapel built between 1898 and 1899 by Waring and Rathbone, showcasing the Arts and Crafts style. Constructed from brick with stone dressings and a tiled roof, the chapel is a rectangular structure with six bays, featuring a narthex, a hall to the left, and a vestry and library at the rear. The exterior includes stone quoins, flush bands, and coped gables. The gable end of the chapel is adorned with five half-octagonal shafts topped with wrought iron finials, and it has two ovolo-mullioned windows with three lights and two transoms, all with leaded glazing and a cornice.

The narthex has a plain cornice and a five-light mullioned window with a datestone to the left. To the left, there is a porch designed as an octagonal turret, featuring three round arches supported by squat columns with entasis and stiff-leaf capitals. Winged allegorical figures at the angles support half-octagonal shafts with wrought iron finials. The upper stage of the turret has cross-mullioned windows on alternate faces, a cornice, and a ramped parapet topped with a pyramidal roof. The round-headed entrances have paired fielded-panelled doors. The right angle of the narthex includes a small recessed porch with round arches on columns similar to those in the main porch.

The hall has a hipped roof and a ramped parapet, with a four-light window featuring a king mullion and three transoms. The right return of the chapel has mullioned and transomed windows set between flat buttresses. Inside, the end bay forms a small raised chancel with a screen of three round arches and an arch-braced timber roof. The chapel contains important furnishings by the Bromsgrove Guild, including a communion table, pulpit, and choir stalls, with painted decoration by Bernard Sleigh. Decorative ironwork, electroliers, and other details were created by Walter Gilbert, who also made copper panels for the lectern. Additionally, there are four panels of Birkenhead Della Robbia Ware in the chancel.