Chapel Attached To South West Corner Of Hesley Hall

SK69NW BAWTRY STRIPE ROAD (west side, off) 7/33 Chapel attached to - south-west corner of Hesley Hall - II Chapel. 1891. For Benjamin Ingham Whitaker in memory of Eliza Sophia Whitaker (d.1885). Red brick with ashlar dressings, graduated slate roof. Small, nave and apsidal chancel in one with south porch and bellcote; Gothic Revival in Perpendicular style. Chamfered plinth and moulded band. Porch on left has moulded Tudor arch with carved spandrels and hoodmould; string course beneath embattled parapet with carved centre panel and ball finial. Nave window on right is of 6 round-headed lights with central king mullion and plain panel-traceried head beneath moulded 4-centred arch with hoodmould and finial. Offset buttress at division of nave and chancel supports a corbelled octagonal bell turret, with single-light opening in each side beneath panels inscribed 'BIW/1891/CLW'; crocketed ashlar spirelet with finial. West end: apsidal baptistry projection beneath 3-light window with hoodmould, gable slit; ashlar gable copings with ball finials. Chancel: sill band beneath square-headed south window of 2 ogee lights with hoodmould; small 3-light east window with apron panels; moulded cornice beneath oversailing, embattled parapet. Interior: nave has north organ recess with Tudor arch; on west wall a carved frieze with dedication to E. S. Whitaker; barrel-vaulted roof. Chancel has aumbry, sedilia and piscina recesses around the apse. Fittings: mostly original, panelled dado; 1910 rood beam with crucifixion; carved reredos. Fine wall paintings in the baptistry and to walls and ceiling of the chancel. Stained glass in baptistry (font removed). Alabaster wall monument, on north wall of nave, to B. I. Whitaker who lived at Hesley 1861-1922 and to wife Caroline (d.1941).

Listing NGR: SK6183695639