Former Chapel At Wootton Hall

This is a Roman Catholic chapel, later converted into a ballroom around 1900 and now disused. It was built in 1813 and has undergone subsequent alterations, including an early 20th-century range adjoining the chapel and Wootton Hall to the west, and an outshut added in the 1970s. The chapel is constructed of brownish-red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof. Its architectural style is Greek Revival with Mannerist influences.

The chapel comprises a continuous nave and an apsidal chancel, with a four-window range on the north side and a vestry. The west-facing entrance is accessed via an early 20th-century porch with part-glazed, four-panel double doors and an overlight featuring radial glazing. This porch partly obscures a projecting entrance facade, which echoes Italian Mannerist church facades, featuring Tuscan pilasters, a frieze, architrave, and cornice, along with a blocking course and a curvilinear gable end with central Diocletian recess and copings. A chamfered plinth is present, accompanied by pilaster buttresses between the windows, and a first-stage band. Behind this are giant end pilasters, a frieze, a cornice, and a simple pediment over the gable end, topped with a weather-vane and cross.

The nave and chancel have a chamfered plinth, pilaster buttresses between the windows (with paired pilasters at the ends of the nave), a first-stage band, a frieze, and a roll-moulded cornice. The nave's four round-arched window openings include one that is now blocked and partly obscured by garage doors on the north side. The remaining windows have multi-pane glazing with radial patterns to the head and margin lights, with stained glass within the margins. The chancel features a similar window to the east end and Diocletian windows on the upper stage. The windows all feature sills and rubbed brick arches. The apse has a curved roof, while the remainder of the roof is gabled. An octagonal cupola sits atop the chancel.

Inside, the chapel features Doric pilasters with a frieze, a cornice embellished with triglyphs and metopes, and two fluted Doric columns supporting an elliptical arch leading to the chancel. Doors with six panels, curved on plan and housed within moulded architraves with friezes and cornices on consoles, provide access to the apse. The ceiling is segmentally vaulted. A gallery located at the west end provides access to Wootton Hall. The building is characterised by stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.