St Mary'S Chapel

St Mary's Chapel, now a shop, was remodelled between 1825 and 1828 at the expense of Mary Goodwin and subsequently extended in the later 19th century. The lower portion of the south-west wall likely dates back to the early 17th century or earlier and incorporates a relocated 14th-century door arch on the south-west side, alongside a re-sited 14th-century stone window arch on the south-east side, both originally from the chantry chapel of St. Mary Bradstow.

The chapel is primarily constructed of coursed flint, with knapped flint on the main faces, and red or stock brick dressings. The lower part of the south-west wall may be of stone but is not visible externally. A hipped tiled roof tops the building.

The building consists of a two-bay chapel forming an irregular parallelogram, approximately 34 feet long and 17 feet wide, oriented north-east to south-west. This shape is interrupted on the north-west side by a later three-story house and shop, also aligned north-east to south-west, creating an L-shaped layout with an entrance on the north-west.

The north-west front, facing Albion Street, features an entrance through a wide two-centred arched doorway within a flint boundary wall, with steps leading down to an early 20th-century half-glazed double door. Only the northern half of the chapel is visible on this side; it features a pointed arched window with intersecting wooden glazing bars. The southern portion of this side is obscured by 46 Albion Street, which houses a shop on the ground floor with accommodation above.

The south-west end is faced in knapped flint and features stock brick quoins and window and door architraves. The lower portion contains a five-light window, dating around 1600, incorporating both Caen stone and Thanet sandstone, with mullions and a transom. An adjoining doorcase displays a re-sited 14th-century stone arch. Above this, two pointed arched casement windows, dating after 1860, are visible, each with wooden intersecting arches. Below the ground floor, the top of an arched opening leading to a cellar or crypt is visible.

The south-east and north-west sides are largely obscured by adjacent buildings, but an internal inspection reveals two pointed arched windows on the upper part of the south-east side, one of which is likely a relocated 14th-century stone arch, moved after 1937. The north-west side shows no evidence of windows internally.

The interior south-east wall's lower portion is thicker than the rest, including a corner buttress and the ovolo moulding of the bricked-up early 17th-century five-light mullioned and transomed window. A 14 feet square brick cellar, built in the early 19th century and set into chalk bedrock, lies beneath the south side of the chapel. An air raid shelter from World War II, featuring a concrete roof supported by tramway rails and brick piers, has been incorporated within this cellar. A further, enclosed bricked-up cellar may be present to the north.