Amberley Chapel

The building is a chapel, largely dating from the 14th century, with origins in the 12th century, and was restored in 1865. It is constructed of roughly coursed sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. A bell-cote is situated on the west verge, featuring two openings, each containing a bell, with square heads to the east and ogee heads over trefoiled soffits to the west. The chapel has a rectangular plan incorporating a nave and chancel, which are structurally undifferentiated. Buttresses are present, angled at the northwest and southwest corners and set back to the eastern corners. West and southwest windows have two trefoiled ogeed lights under quatrefoils and chamfered labels. The northwest window is square-headed, with three trefoil-headed lights, two quatrefoils, two half-quatrefoils, and three spandrel-lights above. The northeast and southeast windows feature Y-tracery with deeply incised mouldings to the jambs. The east window is a total restoration with three lights, the outer two with pointed heads. A window to the east of the porch has one light with a trefoiled head and blind cusped spandrels. The south porch has a round-headed arch with heavy roll moulding, possibly from the 12th century; small lights are present on each side wall, each with an ogee head and a trefoil beneath. The south doorway is a chamfered pointed arch. The interior includes a late 19th-century open wagon roof with brattished wall-plates. A trefoil-headed piscina with a square drain is included, along with a 12th-century corbel rising from a circular base, featuring a scalloped trumpet capital and a square abacus set into the south side of the east wall. To the left of the east window is a large raised panel with a brattished top, ovolo-moulded sides, and a plain recessed segmental-headed arch. The pulpit, from the mid-to-late 19th century, has three sides with a chevron and ball flower frieze and three stylized composite capitals supporting miniature wall-shafts. A late 19th-century chancel screen features open trefoil-headed panels, a central entrance with carved spandrels, and a brattished top. Also present is a late 19th-century harmonium by Mason and Hamlin, Boston, USA. A late 19th-century font has a circular bowl set in an octagon decorated with quatrefoil panels beneath a blind ogee cresting and shamrocks, with an octagonal stem and a round base. The earlier font from this chapel is located in the garden of Amberley Court.