Description

EXETER PRINCE OF WALES ROAD
(north-west side)
Mary Harris Memorial
SX 9193
11/1188 Chapel, University of
Exeter.
II

Chapel. Consec. 1958. Designed and paid for by E Vincent Harris, as a
memorial to his mother. Brick with stone dressings. Hipped slate roof with
stone finials at ridge ends, and secondary hips to bay windows. Rectangular
plan with polygonal apsidal ends. South front: symmetrical. Central round-
arched doorway with plank door and walled area in front. Above, a large
cross. To east and west, single, full height bay windows with stone mullions
and transoms and leaded lights, flanked by lead down-pipes. To west, a
projecting brick entrance vestibule with east facing round arched, moulded
stone doorway with double plank doors. Single stone lancet in south gable end
wall. To east a projecting brick vestry with a 3-light stone mullioned
window, and brick round arched doorway with plank door, in west wall.
Interior: very simple. West vestibule with open tread spiral staircase to
organ loft, and WWI and WWII memorial boards on west wall. Plain, square
doorway leads into chapel. Organ loft at west end above vestibule, with
wooden panelled balustrade and contemporary organ. Doorway to vestry at
south-east corner of chapel. Large cross on east wall. Ceiling decorated
with abstract vault patterns by W.T. Monnington, 1956. Contemporary panelled
pewing, and metal and glass altar candle holders. Plaque on south wall
inscribed: The Ceiling of this chapel was designed and executed in 1956 by
WALTER THOMAS MONNINGTON, R.A. Impleri cum cum spiritu Dei ad excogitandum
quidquid fabrefieri potest'. Tablet on north wall of chapel inscribed: 'THIS
THE MARY HARRIS MEMORIAL CHAPEL OF THE HOLY TRINITY WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF
EXETER WAS THE GIFT OF E. VINCENT HARRIS O.B.E. R.A LL.D AND HIS WIFE EDITH IN
MEMORY OF HIS MOTHER CONSECRATED BY THE RIGHT REVEREND ROBERT LORD BISHOP OF
EXETER ON JUNE 26 IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY EIGHT'.
Tiled and concrete flagged flooring.

Listing NGR: SX9178893782

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Mary Harris Memorial Chapel of the Holy Trinity at Wikipedia
• Mary Harris Memorial Chapel of the Holy Trinity official website
• Wikidata Q6779724

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