Harewood Hall Horton Hospital Chapel

EPSOM LONG GROVE LANE TQ 1862-1962 (South side off) 19/1 Horton Hospital Chapel and Harewood Hall

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Hospital chapel, part now hall. Designed 1894, built 1901 by G T Hine for London County Council. Yellow brick in English bond with red-brick bands and dressings, ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. Wide 9-bay nave with 8-bay side-aisles, the west bay of nave flanked by lower, flat-roofed portals; 1-bay chancel with bellcote in angle of nave and chancel on south side and lower, flat-roofed vestry in angle on north side. Chamfered plinth; angle pilasters to west and east ends supporting open pediments; bays defined by square columns with ashlar capitals supporting deeply-oversailing roof, hipped over aisles. Aisle windows are tripartite having 8-pane sashes flanked by narrow 6-pane sashes, fanlights with radial glazing bars, stone sills, imposts and keystones; Lunettes to ends of aisles; keyed oculi to sides of chancel; Diocletian windows to west and east ends, the latter with central cross panel. Doorways in western portals and at east end of nave on both north and south sides have ashlar architraves (with pulvinated friezes and cornices) and reveals to deeply recessed 6-panel double doors. Bellcote has ashlar bell-housing with corniced segmental pediment and cross finial.

Interior: west end now divided off as hall. Doric-columned arcades and rood screen, the arcade columns on tall plinths and carrying entablature and barrel-vaulted roofs; eaved architraves to windows; wood parquet and encaustic-tiled floor. Original wooden pews, pulpit and lectern, and raised-and-fielded-panelled organ screen.

Listing NGR: TQ1961962030