Paraclete Chapel

WALFORD CP HOM GREEN SO 52 SE

4/85 Paraclete Chapel

22.3.73

• II

Church. 1905-6 by Bodley. Snecked sandstone rubble with limestone dress- ings and tile roof. Comprises a nave, west porch, east vestry and south chapel. The porch covers the full width of the nave and is of a single storey with parapet. To each side of the moulded pointed doorway are tre- foiled single-light windows. Above, the west wall of the nave has three niches with cusped ogee heads, and two buttresses. It is capped by a stone bellcote. The north wall of the nave is of four bays separated by buttresses. The windows have lights with trefoiled triangular heads and are of four, three, two and two lights. The south wall of the nave has two windows of two and three lights. The chapel south window is of four lights, its east window of three. The east vestry is of a single storey with parapet. Its north and south walls each have a window of two trefoiled lights. The east doorway is moulded and pointed. At the south-east corner is a chimney of square plan with gabled cap and ogee-headed opening. The east wall of the nave is blind and has a central buttress. Interior: arcade of four pointed arches divides nave along its axis. Arches spring from octagonal piers with moulded capitals and are chamfered in two orders. A moulded pointed arch opens into the south chapel. The sanctuary is floored in marble laid in a chequerboard pattern. To the west of the central pier of the arcade the nave is divided from the choir by a carved oak screen with tracery decoration and with brattishing. The choir stalls are of oak and are carved with blind tracery. The eastern window on the south side of the nave contains glass with the figures of saints and is a memorial to those killed in the Great War.

Listing NGR: SO5801622049