The Warneford Hospital Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1997. Chapel.
The Warneford Hospital Chapel
- WRENN ID
- sombre-gargoyle-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1997
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Warneford Hospital Chapel is an asylum chapel built between 1841 and 1851 by architect H.J. Underwood. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with moulded coping at the gable ends. The chapel has a nave and a small chancel, with a vestry located on the liturgical north side. The entrance is at the west end, beneath a gallery, and there is a priests' door at the east end of the south side of the nave.
Architecturally, the chapel is designed in the Victorian Gothic Early English style. The exterior consists of a four-bay nave, with the north and south sides divided by pilasters and tall lancet windows topped with hoodmoulds. The south side includes a two-light window above the priests' door at the east end. Set-back buttresses with truncated pinnacles adorn the corners of the nave and chancel. The west end features a double-chamfered pointed arch doorway, two small roundels above containing trefoil lights, a stringcourse, and a small gabled bellcote that is corbelled out above, topped by a small trefoil in the gable with a cross. Other gables originally had crosses, which have since been removed. The short chancel has an east window with three lancet lights under a single hoodmould, and the vestry on the north side has small lancet windows.
Inside, there is a gallery at the west end of the nave supported by a three-bay arcade with compound piers, moulded two-centred arches, and an arcaded balcony. The roof features tie-beam trusses with tracery between the posts. The dado includes arched panels with brattishing, and the benches have cusped panel ends along with wrought-iron lecterns. The chancel arch and the vestry arch on the north side of the chancel are double-chamfered, with responds that have stiff-leaf capitals. The chapel also contains Victorian stained glass windows.
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