Chapel At Portishead National Nautical School

The chapel, dedicated to St Nicholas, was built in 1911 as part of the Portishead National Nautical School. It is constructed of snicked rubble with limestone dressings and has plain tiled roofs. The building comprises a west porch, the main chapel, north and south transepts, and an antechapel.

The single-storey west porch has double doors with a keystone and an upper segmental head, with pilasters to the sides surmounted by carved angels and a single light window in a chamfered surround on each side. The chapel itself has a five-light west window with round heads and two transoms, set within a recessed area with a moulded segmental arch above. Pilasters flank the window, and there is a single louvred opening above, also recessed and with a segmental arch. A bellcote with a cross finial sits at the gable end. The north and south sides have five bays, each with a tall single light window with a depressed 4-centred arched head, a chamfered surround, and a hood mould. There is a plinth, a sill string course, and weathered buttresses. The north and south transepts have gable ends with raised coped verges and a similar five-light, segmental-headed window with one transom and a hood mould. A single-storey porch is attached to the west side, with a door and a two-light window, with the sill string course continuing over the window heads. The north transept has a further single-storey block attached to the north with a similar three-light window and door. The antechapel is one bay wide, featuring a similar five-light east window as the transepts, with a continued and raised sill string course, a lancet window in the gable end, a limestone flush band course, and a foundation stone below, alongside weathered angle buttresses.

The interior was inaccessible at the time of the 1985 survey, but a previous list description noted a nave and choir roof with arched collar beam trusses and curved ogee braces to the king post. Two wide segmental arches open off the choir into a shallow bay, one containing an organ; a similar arch leads to the sanctuary bay, which features stone panelled walls.