Penitentiary Chapel

The Penitentiary Chapel, built in 1845 by Manners and Gill, is a former chapel that is now part of a housing complex. It is constructed from limestone ashlar, with the roof not visible. The building has a rectangular plan and is aligned parallel to the street.

The exterior features two storeys and a five-bay front window arrangement. It has a high raised parapet with a blocking course and stone consoles situated between the lintel frieze and the cornice. There is a continuous moulded sill string course, a ground floor platband, and a plinth. The windows are plate glass sash types, with five equidistant upper floor windows that have moulded shouldered architraves, cornices, and blind stone balustraded aprons. Between four of the right-hand windows are smaller circular windows with moulded surrounds. The ground floor windows are set back and have deeply splayed reveals, with smaller set back splayed circular windows to the left of centre and inside right.

To the right, between the chapel and No. 108, the moulded sill string course continues on a stone balustrade over banded rustication leading to a slightly set back entrance, which features a six-panel door that is glazed at the top. The cornice and parapet extend to the right return, while a slightly lower two-storey block is located behind the entrance. The left return is plain.

The interior has not been inspected but is assumed to have undergone significant alterations; it currently serves as the common room for the Ladymead House housing development and may have been laterally divided. The top-lit interior remains in situ. The construction of the chapel was authorized on 26th July 1824, but it was not completed until 1845.