Sandbeck Chapel

Sandbeck Chapel is a private chapel located in Sandbeck Park, built in 1869 by Benjamin Ferrey for the 9th Earl of Scarbrough. The chapel is constructed from rock-faced magnesian limestone and features a graduated slate roof. It has a four-bay nave with a north porch and an apsidal chancel, designed in the High Victorian Gothic style with geometrical tracery.

On the north side of the nave, there is a chamfered plinth and offset buttresses between the bays. The gabled porch on the right has shafted responds leading to a pointed arch with a hoodmould, topped with a gable and cross. The other bays feature a string course beneath two-light windows that have cusped lights and trefoils set under pointed arches with hoodmoulds. The chapel also includes a stone gutter, gable copings with a west cross and sanctus bellcote, and a ridge ventilator. The west window is designed in the shape of a wheel with diagonal shafts and trefoils.

The south side of the nave was altered in 1954 when a service wing that linked to Sandbeck Park was removed. The chancel is lower and has two lancet windows on both the north and south sides, with single lights on the sides of the apse. All windows are recessed and feature side shafts with foliage-carved capitals and hoodmoulds. The eaves have a corbel table beneath a hipped roof, which is topped with an iron cross and tile ridge cresting.

Inside, the nave bays are divided by pointed arches set on shafts that rise from carved-head corbels. Above the arches are short columns supporting the purlins and geometrical openwork roof trusses. The west bay contains a corbelled balcony with triple lancet openings beneath an ashlar balustrade that is pierced by cusped and foiled openings. The chancel arch features a pointed moulded arch with shafted responds set on semi-octagonal corbels, and the floor is made of encaustic tiles. Blind arcading surrounds the apse, with shafts and carved capitals supporting pointed arches that rise to a carved cornice and vault ribs of a painted ceiling. The chapel also contains contemporary pews, light fittings, and stained glass. Coloured sketches and correspondence from Benjamin Ferrey are preserved at Sandbeck Park.