Chapel Of Ease At Catton Hall

This is a chapel of ease, built in 1892 for the Hanson family of Catton Hall. The chapel is constructed of red brick with brick dressings, and has a graduated slate roof with a hipped east end. The western gable has moulded stone copings and is topped by an octagonal timber bellcote with open sides and a tall shingled spire. The design comprises a nave with a lower chancel bay, a north vestry and a south porch.

The west elevation features a central stepped buttress rising into the canted base of the bellcote, which has small pointed corbelling arches on either side containing stone figures of saints. Above this are a small central lancet window and single moulded lancets with returned brick hoodmoulds on either side. The north vestry has two similar lancets to the west and two more, without hoodmoulds, to the east. The north nave elevation contains three lancets, with stone plaques commemorating George and Barbara Hanson who died in 1957 and 1939 respectively, placed between the eastern windows. The canted chancel bay has a continuous moulded sill band that steps up on the eastern elevation, featuring single lancets with returned hoodmoulds on all sides except for the east, which displays a datestone inscribed "1892". The south nave elevation is similar to the north. The south porch has a stone-coped gable topped by a terracotta ridge cross and a small lancet window to the south. It has timber Caernarvon arched doorcases to the east and west, with Celtic crosses carved on the spandrels, and a double chamfered pointed inner doorcase with a returned hood.

Inside, a wide arched braced timber chancel arch with pierced carved spandrels leads to the nave, which has an arched braced roof. The west end of the nave features a corbelled brick arch supporting the bellcote; below, there is a circular font from the 12th century set on a 19th-century base. A pointed doorcase leads to the vestry on the north side, and a large organ is located above the south door. The chancel has an early 20th-century carved oak reredos with a stone piscina on the south side. Metal altar rails, rails across the chancel arch, and copper lamps throughout the nave and chancel all date from 1892. All windows have inner brick hoods, with painted decoration on the plasterwork between them. The nave has no pews. Contemporary figurative stained glass by E Frampton is present in the chancel windows to either side of the altar. All nave lancets, except the eastern ones, have small coloured glass decoration at the tops; two to the north have inserted stained glass—one a small roundel and the other a coat of arms—while the eastern lancet to the south contains early 20th-century figurative glass, and the opposite lancet to the north has stained glass by Kempe and Tower.