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

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