Chapel at Whitchurch Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 April 1994. Chapel.
Chapel at Whitchurch Hospital
- WRENN ID
- half-joist-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1994
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Large lancet-style chapel in red brick with Bath stone dressings, Welsh slate roofs. Aisled nave with chancel. Elevation (south) facing hospital has two pairs of gabled clerestorey dormers each dormer with 3-light Gothic window; roof sweeps down over aisle (but it is hipped to left); six bays articulated by thin stepped buttresses; two lancets to each bay except right bay which has single window and shallow porch with Gothic doorway. South elevation of chancel has small transept with two lancets, shallow buttresses, and gothic doorway; diagonal buttress to south-west angle, two lancets to east. East end has three lancets. West end has broad single-storey porch with hipped roof, central gabled bay set forward with Gothic doorway; to each side, two 2-light windows separated by buttresses; simple Gothic doorway to returns. Large 3-light window in gable above and bell-cote to apex. North elevation as south, but north-east angle between transept and chancel has narrow castellated chimney-tower with 2-light louvred window to each side, and vestry with window of three camber-headed lights.
Red brick with Bath stone dressings; used as a store room with most furnishings removed. Open arch-braced roof; nave arcade of six bays, round stone piers. Aisle windows have stained glass with simple art-nouveau design to heads, much is broken, particularly on the north side. Steps up to chancel (organ to left), lancets have glass with figures of Faith, Hope and Charity. West porch subdivided with separate doors to aisles and nave. Pulpit still in position.
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