Worthington Place

Worthington Place is a former hospital church dating to 1875, designed by JA Cory, the county surveyor, and built in the Perpendicular Gothic style. It is constructed of red sandstone ashlar with contrasting ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs with coped gables. The building comprises a chancel, nave, porches with vestries, a bell turret, and a spire over the south porch. Features include a plinth, sill band, and buttresses, with windows predominantly featuring segmental pointed arches and moulded heads. The chancel, a single bay, has a four-light east window with transom and panel tracery, and smaller two-light windows on the north and south sides. The nave, with four bays, has two two-light windows and two three-light windows on each side. The west end features a four-light window with panel tracery above a four-centred arched door. A tower porch to the south has a moulded pointed arched doorway and a small two-light window to the ringing chamber. The octagonal bell turret is buttressed and has a traceried bell opening on alternate faces, surmounted by a plain octagonal spire set back behind a crenellated parapet. A lean-to vestry to the east has a three-light flat headed window. A gabled north porch has a similar doorway and vestry. The interior is rendered and features an arch braced roof in the chancel, supported by corbels, and a sill band. The nave also has an arch braced roof with brackets on corbels and a sill band. Originally, the fittings included a traceried wooden clergy desk, an octagonal pulpit, panelled choir stalls and benches, and an organ with show pipes installed in 1890.