Chapel Of St Luke, Brompton Hospital

The Chapel of St Luke, located within Brompton Hospital, was built in 1849-50 by E. B. Lamb, with alterations and an enlargement carried out in 1891-2 by W. White. The chapel is constructed of Kentish rag stone with Caen stone dressings, and has a slate roof. It features a moulded plinth, coped parapets punctuated by lozenge-shaped panels, buttresses with set-offs and crocketed finials, and copper-covered fleches (small towers) positioned over the nave and aisle, added in the 1890s. The layout includes a nave, north aisle, chancel, organ chamber, south transept, and a vestry. The architectural style is Gothic Revival.

The west window, a five-light design with cusped tracery, crockets, and ballflowers, is by Lamb and flanked by buttresses. The three-bay north aisle retains Lamb's original two-light traceried windows. A canted organ chamber and a five-light east window, along with a two-window arrangement on the south chancel wall, represent White’s later additions. A five-sided south transept, an entrance lobby, and a gabled vestry block, also by Lamb, are present, although some windows were reset by White.

Inside, the entrance lobby has an open-timber roof supported by corbels bearing monograms of Lamb, Foulis, his sister, and Rose, who was the Honorary Secretary to the hospital. The nave features a three-bay north arcade with chamfered arches and piers, capped with capitals and bases, and a fourth similar transept bay to the east. A double-moulded chancel arch is also present. The nave roof is an open-timber construction by Lamb, incorporating hammerbeams, arched braces with traceried spandrels, diagonal ties, struts, and pendants. The chancel was rebuilt by White, though retaining Lamb’s ornate two-part-stone sedilia. The sanctuary includes two canopied niches in the angles of the east wall and an ornate aumbry on the north side, all with decorated ogee-arches. The chancel roof, also by White, features simple hammerbeams with carved angels and heraldic shields, likely reset. Numerous fittings designed by Lamb remain, including the pulpit, reading desks, altar rail, altar table, chancel screen, pews, and stalls. A stone font, dated 1875, is situated in the south transept. Stained glass, designed by Lamb, depicts healing themes from the New Testament and also includes heraldry.