Sandbeck Chapel

MALTBY SANDBECK PARK SK59SE 4/60 Sandbeck Chapel GV II Private chapel to Sandbeck Park. 1869. By Benjamin Ferrey for the 9th Earl of Scarbrough. Rock-faced magnesian limestone, graduated slate roof. 4-bay nave with north porch and apsidal chancel. In High Victorian Gothic style with geometrical tracery. Nave, north side: chamfered plinth, offset buttresses between bays. Gabled porch on right with shafted responds to pointed arch with hoodmould, gable with cross. Other bays: string course beneath 2-light windows with cusped lights and trefoils beneath pointed arches with hoodmoulds; stone gutter; gable copings with west cross and sanctus bellcote; 1 ridge ventilator. West window in the farm of a wheel with diagonal shafts and trefoils. South side of nave altered in 1954 on removal of service wing which formed link to Sandbeck Park (house) (q.v.). Chancel: lower, 2 lancet windows to north and south, single lights to sides of apse; all recessed with side shafts having foliage-carved capitals and hoodmoulds. Eaves corbel table to hipped roof with iron cross to apex and tile ridge cresting. Interior: nave bays divided by pointed arches set on shafts rising from carved-head corbels; above the arches are short columns to the purlins and geometrical, openwork roof trusses. West bay has corbelled balcony with triple lancet openings beneath an ashlar balustrade pierced by cusped and foiled openings. Chancel: chancel arch has pointed moulded arch with shafted responds set on semi-octagonal corbels; encaustic-tiled floor; blind arcading set round the apse with shafts and carved capitals to pointed arches, shafts rising to carved cornice and vault ribs of painted ceiling. Contemporary pews, light fittings, and stained glass. Coloured sketches and correspondence from Benjamin Ferrey survive at Sandbeck Park (house).

Listing NGR: SK5688990333