Clyne Chapel

The chapel is aligned N-S and has a nave with aisle and porch and a lower chancel at the S end. In snecked, rock-faced stone with lighter freestone dressings, and a slate roof with gabled bellcote on the ridge between nave and chancel. A simple Perpendicular style is used but the windows all differ in the tracery. The chancel gable end has a 3-light window, large diagonal buttresses with large crocketed pinnacles, and the eaves have cupped cresting with head-corbels. On the E side is a 2-light window, while on the W side is a shorter window and a vestry in the angle with the aisle. On the E side the nave has a 3-light and a 2-light window to L of the gabled porch, and a square-headed window of 2 cusped lights to the R. The N end of nave has a 3-light window, of which the excessively large stops of the hood mould are re-used Italianate grotesque heads and festoons. Diagonal buttresses and pinnacles are similar to the chancel. The aisle has a 3-light window, two 3-light square-headed windows, and a Gothic doorway. Below the nave, steps lead down to 2 Gothic crypt doorways. The crypt contains tombs of William Graham Vivian, Dulcie Charlotte Vivian, and Admiral Walker-Heneage-Vivian.

A 3-bay nave arcade has octagonal piers and arches with 2 orders of chamfer. Boarded wagon roofs have embossed ribs in the nave and chancel, but are plainer in the aisle. The nave has a marble floor laid diaper fashion, while the chancel has an Italian mosaic floor. In the chancel are 2 sedilia under cusped arches. The small Italian marble font has an octagonal base, octagonal panelled stem and a round bowl with pendant finials. The wooden octagonal pulpit has an inlaid sounding board supported on pillars, said to be C15 Italian, from Rome. In the S aisle is a wooden screen, possibly an organ case, comprising gabled canopies over cusped 2-centred arches, all flanked by tall pinnacles and long thin Gothic panels. The chancel has a pillar piscina which has twin shafts with spiral foliage, and a rectangular basin carved with birds and beasts. The concave altar and altar rails with shaped balusters are in polychrome marble and were brought from Sicily. To the L of the altar is a wall tablet to Admiral Walker-Heneage-Vivian (1871-1952) incorporating a dog and pheasant in relief. To the R of the altar is a relief carving of the Transfiguration. The walls of the chancel have other mosaic panels, including a C13 panel said to have come from St Bartholemew in Rome.