Former Royal Naval Hospital The Church Of The Good Shepherd

The Church of the Good Shepherd is a chapel, originally part of the former Royal Naval Hospital, built in 1883 and restored following war damage between 1945 and 1946. The building is constructed primarily of Plymouth limestone rubble with limestone dressings and has dry slate roofs with coped ends.

The architectural style is Gothic Revival, largely incorporating early English details. The plan comprises a nave, a semicircular chancel, north and south aisles with integral east porches, a short transept to the north aisle, a small apse to the south aisle, and a tower with a baptistry in the southwest corner.

Exterior features include stiff-leaf capitals, nail-head ornament, and shaft rings. There are cusped and traceried two-light windows with nook shafts and carved capitals, six chancel windows with linked hood moulds over pointed arches, and a punched trefoil band between gabled dormers. A large two-centred arched window is found at the west end of the nave, above a porch. The tower has three diminishing stages topped with a steep spire and finial.

The interior is brightly painted white with a natural wood, hammer-beam roof carried on slender wooden posts. A moulded pointed arch spans the chancel, and a fan roof covers the chancel area. Fittings include a marble font with quatrefoils, a second font constructed from a ship’s bollard and gun fragment, pitch-pine pews, and various ships' badges. A war memorial is also present.

Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "engineers' Gothic," the church is situated within well-maintained grounds, forming part of a significant military hospital complex.