Former Capel Seion

The Former Capel Seion is an Italianate style chapel, built with scribed roughcast painted yellow-brown and a slate roof behind coped gables. The front facade features three bays with rusticated quoins. The central doorway is round-headed and flanked by Tuscan pilasters, topped with a moulded arch and keystone, and has double fielded-panel doors with a radial-glazed overlight. The windows are adorned with moulded architraves, keystones, and sills. On either side of the entrance are tall round-headed windows with 2-light tracery. Above the doorway, there is a triple gallery window with round-headed lights set on a corbelled sill, incorporating leaded lights and coloured glass. A pediment with a thin cornice extends over the central window in a round arch, featuring a small roundel, and the broader moulded verge is topped with an apex fleur-de-lys finial.

The right side wall, which faces Chapel Street, has four bays with tall 2-light windows similar to those at the front. At the right-hand end, there are recessed double panelled doors beneath a round-headed overlight. The left side wall, facing the yard behind the Bishopsgate Hotel, also has four bays with similar 2-light windows, but with plainer architraves, and the rear gable end is pebble-dashed.

Inside, the entrance vestibule features plastered round arches on consoles leading to gallery stairs on both the right and left, with a moulded newel and plain balusters. Double segmental-headed doors open into the main chapel, which boasts a panelled plaster ceiling with ornate moulded ribs and ceiling roses. A significant portion of the former three-sided gallery remains, although sections near the pulpit have been removed and re-erected across the interior to create a four-sided gallery. This gallery is supported by cast iron Corinthian columns and features a projecting panelled front on moulded brackets.