Former Chapel At Bootham Park Hospital

This is a Gothic Revival church, built in 1865 by Rawlins Gould, and later converted to offices around 1988. It’s constructed from coursed squared sandstone with limestone dressings, and has a roof covered in bands of alternating coloured slate, topped with iron cresting. The plan consists of a four-bay nave with a continuous chancel, short north and south transepts, and an apsidal east end. A turret, octagonal in shape, projects from the south-west corner.

The west wall features a window with three trefoiled lights and four quatrefoils set within a pointed head. The west doorway has double angle shafts with carved foliage, an outer pointed arch and an inner trefoiled arch; the doors are from the late 20th century. The gable is coped and finished with a cross finial. The upper stages of the turret are faced with ashlar and feature sunken quatrefoils below an open bell stage with pointed arches, separated by shafts with foliated capitals. A stone spirelet tops the turret, with a weather vane finial. The nave windows contain two trefoiled lights and a quatrefoil under a pointed head, with angle shafts and foliated caps. The south window of the south transept is similar, while its east window has a single light. The transept gables are coped and have cross finials. The north transept differs with a projecting chimney breast topped with an ashlar cap, and an inserted doorway below its west window. The five windows at the east end each have a single trefoiled light with a trefoil under a pointed head.

Inside, the east window lights are separated by columns with foliate capitals decorated with masks and volutes, and moulded bases with bar stops. The continuous moulded sill has corbel stops at each end. The windows have continuous hoodmoulds springing from carved bosses and angel corbels bearing the symbols of the Communion. The tower door at the west end has boarded panels with scrolled hinges within a two-centred arch. A hammerbeam roof, supported by arch-braced trusses springing from angel corbels, includes floral bosses.