Church of St Luke Chapel at Tone Vale Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1995. Hospital chapel. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Luke Chapel at Tone Vale Hospital
- WRENN ID
- long-step-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1995
- Type
- Hospital chapel
- Address
- Church of St Luke Chapel at Tone Vale Hospital, Dene Road, Cotford St. Luke
- OS grid reference
- ST 167 273
- Coordinates
- 51.03949, -3.18819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Luke, also known as the chapel at Tone Vale Hospital, is a hospital chapel built between 1897 and 1898 by the architectural firm Giles, Gough & Trollope, who designed the hospital itself. The chapel features red sandstone blockwork with yellow limestone dressings and bands, and has slated gabled roofs with a tiled fleche at the crossing and a pyramidal chancel roof. It is designed in the Perpendicular style and consists of a four-bay aisleless nave with a western porch, wide transepts, and a polygonal chancel. The west end and transepts are adorned with 5-light tracery windows, while the chancel has four-light windows. The nave is defined by buttresses that separate cusped lancet windows. The single-storey western porch is parapetted and features a wide nodding ogee doorway with carved king and queen stops, enclosing paired doors.
Inside, the chapel boasts a fine interior with a complex hammerbeam roof, a tiled floor with geometric patterns, and many original fittings. The chapel was constructed to serve the 2nd County of Somerset and City of Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum, which is now known as Tone Vale Hospital.
Local climate
Church of St Luke Chapel at Tone Vale Hospital receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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