St Margarets Chapel

SO8418NW 844-1/10/191 23/01/52

GLOUCESTER LONDON ROAD (South side) St Margaret's Chapel

GV II*

The chapel of the Leper Hospital of St Margaret and St Sepulchre founded prior to 1163, now the chapel of the United Almshouses (qv). The original chapel rebuilt early C14, altered in C15; restored in 1846, and in 1875 by Waller and Son with added vestry, roof renewed and new fittings. Squared rubble incorporating C12 masonry in west wall, some lias rubble, stone slate roof with coped gables. Nave of two bays entered through west doorway, and a smaller chancel of one-bay with added vestry on the south side. EXTERIOR: nave has chamfered offset plinth; buttresses with weathered offsets are set diagonally at the corners; in the west wall an arched doorway with moulded jambs and a single light window with a foiled head under the lintel; in a niche in the upper part of the gable a sanctus bell; in each bay on the north and south sides a C15 two-light window with Perpendicular tracery; a doorway in the second bay of the north wall; in the east wall of the chancel a restored C14 three-light window with foiled heads and quatrefoil tracery; in the south wall two lancet windows with trefoiled heads and in the north wall a similar lancet to the east of the C19 vestry. INTERIOR: chancel arch of two chamfered orders, piscinas with moulded arched heads in nave and chancel; C19 open roof with king-post truss; stained glass probably by Clayton and Bell. A very rare example of a medieval hospital chapel sited on the major eastern approach to the city.

Listing NGR: SO8411418909