St Peters Convent Chapel

SE2918 HORBURY DOVECOTE LANE (south side)

9/9 St. Peter's Convent Chapel

GV II

Convent chapel. 1869-71 by Henry Woodyer, the north transept possibly later; the south chapel dated 1898. Red brick with yellow, sandstone ashlar bands offsets and dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Nave of approx. 6 slender bays with apsidal east end and north and south transepts, the latter with the 1898 3-bay chapel extending eastwards. The building is buttressed and has tall, slender lancets, at high level, with single roll mouldings except to the apse where the mouldings are of 2 orders. The windows in the centre of the apse are shorter where they step-up over a relief crucifix in brick. On the south side is a lean-to addition, with arcaded brick moulding, forming a corridor. The south transept has a projecting chimney breast which crosses from the right to the centre using corbels and rises to a small, lateral, diagonally- set stack at the half-hipped roof. The 1898 chapel has 2-light windows with Decorated tracery and a flat roof. The north transept is gabled and has a wheel window in the apex. The west gable has a larger wheel window. The building is attached at the west end to further convent buildings (q.v.). Interior: wooden screen at west end with small gallery above for the organ. Steeply-pitched arch-braced and arch wind-braced roof, semi-domed over the apse with radiating ribs. Early English Gothic arcading at high level on engaged colonnettes. The south transept is reached through a cusped doorway and has imported early oak panelling. The gallery above has the arcading continuing across its front. Stained glass by Powell (designed by Bell) 1871, and the west window by Kempe 1888-94 (Pevsner). The east windows have abstract coloured glass in the modern idiom. N. Pevsner. The Buildings of England. 1967.

Listing NGR: SE2938718572