Chapel at Hollymoor Hospital

The Chapel at Hollymoor Hospital is a hospital chapel built in 1905 by the architectural firm Martin and Martin of Birmingham for the Borough of Birmingham Lunatic Asylums Committee of Visitors. It is constructed of red brick with terracotta dressings, featuring coped gables and moulded kneelers. The roof is banded slate with gablets and includes a fleche at the upper end of the nave, which has louvred and tiled cheeks, as well as crested clay ridges.

The chapel has an eight-bay nave, with a transeptal vestry to the south and a taller transept to the north. There is a lean-to continuous porch at the west end with double doorways, and an apsidal chancel at the east end. The nave bays are marked by shallow stepped buttresses with set-offs, and each bay has a single tall lancet window surrounded by a moulded margin. A terracotta string course links the cills of the windows, which are topped with continuous hood moulds. The moulded eaves band adds further detail to the structure.

The lean-to porch features gabled doorways at both ends, with stepped moulded doorway arches beneath hood moulds that have scroll stops. The wall between the doorways includes two sets of three lancets. The vestry porch on the south transept has coupled lancets and a projecting flat-roofed porch entry, which is supported by a clasping buttress at the corner. The doorway has a moulded stepped surround and roll moulded parapet coping that extends to join the coped gable of the vestry.

The chancel apse is faceted and buttressed, featuring wide pointed-arched two-light windows with trefoiled heads in each bay, topped with moulded hoods and corbel stops. Smooth red brick bands align with the buttress set-offs. The tall gabled north transept has tall coupled lancets and stepped clasping buttresses at the corners. The fleche and gablets are adorned with intricate metal finials, with the gablets subdivided into three lights.

Inside, the chapel is divided to accommodate both Anglican and Catholic worship. It features a steeply-pitched arch-braced hammer beam roof with triple purlins and exposed rafters. The original bench pews and other fittings remain intact.