Chapel Of St Francis' Hospital

TQ 32 SW HAYWARDS HEATH COLWELL ROAD 4/114 Chapel of St Francis' 11.10.85 Hospital GV II Chapel of former lunatic asylum, now hospital. 1859 by H E Kendall junior in a vigorous Lombardo-Venetian style. Yellow brick with red brick decoration some stone dressings and slate roof. Wide 3 bay nave with aisles, short sanctuary and slender north eastern campanile. Plinth, banding, deep pseudo-entablature with small pedimented kneelers to gables. Windows to the 3 bays of the aisles have 2 lights and quatrefoils to the heads; radiating brickwork giving an extrados more acute than the intrados. Trefoil-headed doorways. Campanile has similar decoration and windows, a heavy cornice and a pyramidal roof. Inside, the arcade is unmoulded above the capital, but has paired columns with foliated capitals and half-column responds. Shallow-pitched roof with cusped queen post construction and cusped arched braces springing from corbels. Apse at west end, barrel-vaulted sanctuary at east end. An original and successful design which complements the more severe main block of the hospital (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ3364622882