Chapel Of Royal Sea Bathing Hospital

The Chapel of the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital is a hospital chapel built between 1882 and 1883 by James Knowles Junior for Erasmus Wilson. It is designed in the Early English style and features polychrome brickwork with a slate roof and some stone dressings. The chapel has a six-bay nave, a one-bay chancel, a lower apsidal-ended sanctuary, and a small octagonal tower with a brick spire and stone finial located at the northwest. The west gable includes five-light traceried windows, five arched windows with double lancets topped with trefoil heads and quatrefoil motifs, and the easternmost window features three trefoil-headed lancets and three quatrefoils, all separated by buttresses. There is a gabled south porch.

Inside, the chapel boasts a remarkable series of stained glass windows by Clayton and Bell, which depict miracles and healing plants. The chancel and sanctuary have an encaustic tiled floor, with a central strip of tiles in the nave. The interior also features a hammer beam roof, stencilled decorations on the walls, and a wall painting at the west end. An octagonal font with marble columns is present, along with a Willis organ that has stencilled pipes.