Description

ARBORFIELD AND NEWLAND BEARWOOD ROAD SU 76 NE (south west side)

9/6 Bearwood College Chapel 30 Metres north west of 14.10.86 Bearwood College

G.V. II

Chapel. 1934-5 by Sir Herbert Baker. Red brick with stone dressings, plain tile hipped roof. Nave, east and west aisle passages, apsidal sanctuary, lobby entrance on south. Ground floor has 6 bays of 2-light leaded Perpendicular style windows, and one-light similar windows to clerestoreys. Brick and stone buttresses, fleche on ridge towards north end. Enclosed entry porch on south with domed ceiling, semi-circular arched entry on other side of buttressed bell- tower with open bell chamber under hipped tiled roof slightly lower in height than main roof. Stone memorial plaque in bell tower base; in memory of James Lyle Mackay, First Earl of Inchcape, Treasurer of The Royal Merchant Navy School 1917-1932. Interior: 6 bay arcades with semi-circular arches and rectangular columns with continuous mouldings; a rib vaulted apse, 2 shallow domes over the choir bays. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SU7764869108

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