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
Address
The Warneford Hospital Chapel, Warneford Lane
OS grid reference
SP 537 060
Coordinates
51.75098, -1.22337
Source
Historic England listing

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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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