Main Block and Chapel of All Saints Hospital is a Grade II* listed building in the Eastbourne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1978. Hospital. 31 related planning applications.

Main Block and Chapel of All Saints Hospital

WRENN ID
calm-plinth-hemlock
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Eastbourne
Constituency
Eastbourne MP: Josh Babarinde (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 November 1978
Type
Hospital
Address
Main Block and Chapel of All Saints Hospital, Darley Road
OS grid reference
TV 601 974
Coordinates
50.75449, 0.26932
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

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."

Local climate

Main Block and Chapel of All Saints Hospital receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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