Hope Chapel

Hope Chapel, now a hall, was originally a Congregational chapel built in 1786. It may have been designed by Daniel Hague. The building was altered and largely refenestrated in 1838 and extended at that time. It is constructed with render over Pennant rubble, limestone dressings, and has a hipped slate roof. The building comprises a main hall and a north vestry wing. The symmetrical south front has four bays, with clasping pilasters carrying round-topped sunken panels separated by a lozenge, rising to a cornice and parapet, which is raised and pedimented centrally. Two central four-centred arched doorways are linked by a hood mould with large, foliate stops and ribbed doors, positioned beneath two three-light windows and flanked by two-light windows, all featuring cusped, intersecting tracery. The western and eastern elevations, each of five bays, have Y-tracery windows with a transom quatrefoil panel. The vestry of 1838 has six-over-six pane sash windows. The interior hall features a balcony on four sides with quatrefoil panels, supported by cast iron columns with fluted, moulded capitals. There is an organ recess at the north end, at gallery level, and a queen post truss roof. The chapel was founded by Ladies Hope and Glenorchy for Calvinistic evangelical worship, and has links to Daniel Hague through similar window details at St Paul's, Portland Square. It was extended by a single bay to the north in 1838, when the windows were replaced.