Main Block And Chapel Of All Saints Hospital

The Main Block and Chapel of All Saints Hospital were built between 1867 and 1874 to the designs of Henry Woodyer. The buildings were constructed as a convalescent hospital by the Anglican order of All Saints' Sisters of the Poor and are arranged in a roughly cruciform shape. They are built of brown brick with stone dressings and a tiled roof. The central portion comprises four bays, with two wings of seven bays each, featuring buttresses, traceried windows, and octagonal stair turrets. The roof has half-hipped dormers. A projecting wing attached to the centre of the south elevation features double and triple traceried heads, and incorporates diaper patterned black brickwork. Brick and stone, two-storied entrances are set diagonally into angles between the central projection and wings, each containing niches with statues of saints. The front elevation of the projections includes arcading on the ground floor and a five-bay arcaded balcony with quatrefoil balustrading to the first floor.

The attached hospital chapel, built in 1874, has an apsidal east end and a bellcote. The chapel’s six-bay nave is buttressed. The interior is a fine and complete example of High Victorian design, featuring polychromatic brickwork and encaustic tiled floors. The reredos behind the High Altar was painted by Julius Frank of Munich, and some of the stained glass is of 19th-century German origin. The central east window is surrounded by stone figures of Saints in niches, and the roof has scissor bracing. A west gallery is approached by a stone staircase outside the chapel, historically used by the Sisters for reciting their "offices."