Hospital Church Of St Luke At City Hospital

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SE HUCKNALL ROAD 646-1/4/294 (North East side) Hospital Church of St Luke at City Hospital

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Chapel, now store. 1902, altered 1975. Red brick with Bulwell stone plinth and slate and plain tile roofs. Tower and main gables have irregular patches of Bulwell stone texturing. PLAN: chancel with porch and organ chamber, transepts, porches, nave with aisles, west porch, south-west tower. Cruciform plan. EXTERIOR: plinth, buttresses, gables. Windows have stone surrounds and mullions. East end, flanked by tiled buttresses, has a round-arched window, 7-lights, with reticulated tracery. On each side, a flat-headed mullioned window, 3-lights. In the return angles, to south a flat roofed porch and to north, a lean-to organ chamber. Transepts have gable windows similar to the east end, and single light segment-headed windows to east. In the return angles to west, a flat roofed porch with double doors and side window. Nave, 5 bays, has tiled buttresses. On each side 5 flat-headed mullioned windows, 3-lights. Above, an ashlar box dormer with lead roof and 4 mullioned windows, 3-lights. West end has a semicircular window, 9-lights, with reticulated tracery. Full width west porch has flat lead roof. In the centre, rounded steps to a pair of doorways. To right, a vestibule with a single window. To left, a larger vestibule with 2 windows divided by a tiled buttress, and a 2-light window to north. Round tower, 2 stages, has crenellated parapet and set back copper-clad needle spire and finial. Bell stage has mullioned louvred bell openings all round. INTERIOR: brick, largely original, with plasterboard and stud partition dividing nave west of crossing. Nave and chancel have round-arched boarded roofs with king posts and arch braces to cross beams. Chancel has moulded round-headed brick arch, and similar arch on north side with panelled screen. Segment-arched recess on south side. Organ chamber has a segment-arched window to east. Transepts have round arches and principal rafter roofs with ceilings. North transept has a door into the organ chamber. Nave has round-arched arcades on square piers with glazed brick plinths. At the west end, 2 segment-arched recesses flanked by round-arched doorways. Aisles have segment-arched doorways to east and round-arched doors to west. Lean-to roofs. Fittings include original Baroque style painted wooden pulpit and steps, baluster stemmed lectern, altar rail with turned balusters, and 2 panelled benches. (Bagthorpe to the City: Story of a Nottingham Hospital: Dr J Macfie: Nottingham: 1984-: 30).

Listing NGR: SK5656343917