Chapel at Bronllys Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 June 1988. Chapel. 3 related planning applications.

Chapel at Bronllys Hospital

WRENN ID
cold-finial-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 June 1988
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Exterior: Rendered and painted with Westmorland slate roof. The building is of cruciform plan with 2 bay nave, short raised chancel with square apse raised on a plinth and lower roof. Transepts, the S containing the organ chamber, with vestry and heating chamber below. W door is studded, with square lights, under a stone arch, the tympanum filled with herringbone masonry. Slightly battered buttresses with stone corbel heads form bays containing the triple light windows, iron frames, margin leaded, with sills of 3 courses of slate. North transept and E window are stepped triple lights with round stone arches. Boarded and studded doors also to E side of N transept. Tapered bell tower with a small pyramidal roof, the bell opening in the form of vertical slots. Oculus in the S transept gable.

Open roof formed of trusses to each bay and across the three sides of the crossing, the laminated timber trusses consisting of principal rafters, scissor rafters, collars and struts to the upper purlin, mostly doubled and forming an attractive network effect. Pulpit part-octagonal and symmetrical with reading desk, both accessed from sanctuary steps. Round arch opening to sanctuary. Parquet floor.

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