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ST 12 NE
7/10004

BISHOPS LYDEARD
DENE ROAD
Church of St Luke (Chapel) at Tone Vale Hospital

GV
II

Hospital chapel known as the Church of St Luke. 1897-98 by Giles, Gough & Trollope who also designed the hospital. Red sandstone blockwork with yellow limestone dressings and bands. Slated gabled roofs with a tiled flech at the crossing; pyramidal chancel roof. Perpendicular style. Four-bay aisleless nave with western porch, wide transepts and polygonal chancel. West end and transepts all have 5-light tracery windows; chancel with four-light windows. Nave defined by buttresses separating cusped lancet windows. Single storey, parapetted western porch with wide nodding ogee doorway having carved king and queen stops and enclosing paired doors.

Fine interior with complex hammerbeam roof, tiled floor of geometric patterning and most original fittings.

The chapel was built to serve the 2nd County of Somerset and City of Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum, now Tone Vale Hospital (not listed).

Listing NGR: ST1679227354

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26303802

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