Description

BIRMINGHAM TESSALL LANE (OFF)
SP 07 NW
16/10042 Chapel at Hollymoor Hospital
II
Hospital Chapel.1905 by Martin and Martin of Birmingham for
the Borough of Birmingham Lunatic Asylums Committee of
Visitors. Red brick with terracotta dressings,coped gables and
moulded kneelers.Banded slate roof gablets and a fleche to the
upper end of the nave with louvred and tiled cheeks.Crested
clay ridges.8 bay nave with transeptal vestry to south and
taller transept to north.Lean-to continuous porch to west end
with double doorways.Apsidal chancel to east end. Nave bays
delineated by shallow stepped buttresses with set-offs.Single
tall lancet to each bay with mouded margin to surround,terra
cotta string course linking cills,and with continuous hood
mould to window heads.Moulded eaves band.Lean to porch with
gabled doorways to ends.Stepped moulded doorway arches below
hood moulds with scroll stops.Flat shouldered door heads below
3 lancet arched infill of door arch heads.Wall between
doorways incorporates 2 sets of 3 lancets.Vestry porch to
south transept with coupled lancets and projecting
flat-roofed porch entry with clasping buttress to
corner.Moulded stepped surround to doorway,and roll moulded
parapet coping which extends to join coped gable to vestry
Faceted chancel apse, buttressed,and with a wide
pointed-arched 2 light window with trefoiled head to each
bay.Moulded hood above with corbel stops.Smooth red brick
bands aligned with buttress set-offs.Tall gabled north
transept with tall coupled lancets.Stepped clasping buttresses
to corners.Intricate metal finials to fleche and gablets, the
latter subdivided into 3 lights.Interior subdivided to provide
for Anglican and Catholic worship.Steeply-pitched arch-braced
hammer beam roof with triple purlins and rafters expressed
internally.Original bench pews and other fittings.

Listing NGR: SP0024578487

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26527755

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