Former Chapel At Wootton Hall

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SE STRATFORD ROAD 1457-1/5/177 (North side) 05/04/67 Former Chapel at Wootton Hall (Formerly Listed as: WOOTTEN WAWEN STRATFORD ROAD, Wootten Wawen Chapel at Wootten Hall)

GV II*

Roman Catholic chapel, converted to a ballroom c1900, now disused. 1813 with later alterations including range early C20 adjoining chapel and Hall (qv) to west; c1970s outshut. Brownish-red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. Greek Revival with Mannerist elements. Continuous nave and apsidal chancel, 4-window range, north vestry. EXTERIOR: entrance to west end in early-C20 porch with part-glazed, 4-panel double doors and overlight with radial glazing. Porch partly obscures projecting entrance facade, reminiscent of Italian Mannerist church facades, which has Tuscan pilasters with frieze, architrave and cornice, blocking course, curvilinear gable end with central Diocletian recess, copings. Chamfered plinth, pilaster buttresses between windows and first-stage band. Behind this are giant end pilasters with frieze, cornice and unelaborated pediment to gable end with weather-vane and cross at apex. Nave and chancel: chamfered plinth, pilaster buttresses between windows with paired pilasters to ends of nave; first-stage band, frieze and roll-moulded cornice. Nave has 4 round-arched window openings, one now blocked and interrupted by garage doors to north side, otherwise with multi-pane windows with radial glazing to head and margin lights, the margins have stained glass. Chancel has similar window to east end and Diocletian windows to upper stage. Windows have sills and rubbed brick arches. Curved roof to apse, otherwise gabled roof. Octagonal cupola to chancel. INTERIOR: Doric pilasters with frieze, cornice with triglyphs and metopes, 2 fluted Doric columns to chancel with elliptical arch. Entrances to apse have 6-panel doors, curved on plan in moulded architraves with frieze and cornice on consoles. Segmental-vaulted ceiling. To west end a gallery which gives access to Wootton Hall (qv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 482).

Listing NGR: SP1551963378