Chapel At Water Eaton Manor House

The chapel at Water Eaton Manor House is a domestic chapel built around 1600. It was restored in 1884 by W. Wilkinson and H.W. Moore, and again in about 1905 by G.F. Bodley. The structure is made of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings and features a Stonesfield-slate roof. It includes a nave and chancel designed in the Perpendicular style. The walls have a chamfered plinth and stepped angle buttresses, rising to gable parapets.

The chancel's east window has five cinquefoiled lights set within a four-centre-arched head, while the south window mirrors this design but has three lights. There are also two additional three-light windows in the south wall of the nave and a fourth window facing west. The south doorway features a three-centred head with recessed spandrels beneath a label mould. The west gable is topped with a small bellcote.

Inside, both the nave and chancel have wagon roofs supported by heavy coupled rafters with arched bracing that rises from moulded wall plates. The chancel arch is in a Renaissance style, featuring a chamfered semi-circular arch with moulded capitals that continue as a cornice. Notable interior fittings include a complete set of bench pews with heavy fleur-de-lys poppyheads, a hexagonal pulpit with carved arched panels, a sounding board, and a crested canopy. The chancel screen is adorned with an arcade of black-painted Ionic columns supporting a strapwork frieze, with the lower panelling likely being a restoration. A simple communion table with turned legs is also present. The choir stalls, in a similar style, date from the 19th century, as does the rood added by Bodley. The east window features early 20th-century stained glass. This chapel is a remarkably complete example of a rare type.