Description

BIRMINGHAM BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH (OFF)
SO 17 ME
Chapel at Rubery Hill Hospital
15/10040
II
Hospital chapel.1882,by Martin and Chamberlain of Birmingham
for the Borough of Birmingham's Lunatic Asylums Committee of
Visitors,with C20 alterations.Red brick with ashlar sandstone
and terracotta dressings beneath a plain tiled roof.Aisless
plan comprising nave(now subdivided for Anglican and Catholic
worship)and apsidal chapel,in the Early English style,with
gabled bellcote at the junction of nave and chancel.Nave of 8
bays with plain entrance doorways enclosed by corridor of
adjacent hospital.Each bay with copled lancets rising froma
moulded brick string,the windows having steeply-sloping ashlar
cills.Moulded brick surronds within chamfered brick openings.A
moulded string above window heads supports a plain eaves.Nave
bays delineated bystepped brick buttresses with moulded
margins and ashlar set-offs.4 roof gablets to each
slope.Doorway within each sidewall 4 bays from entry
end.Bellcote projects from broken gable which supports
flanking spired turrets.Apse with coupled lancets to each of 5
bays between stepped buttresses, with a continuous hood mould
carried around upper set-offs to butresses.Interior with
hammer-beam roof trusses,arch-braced and carried on ashlar
wall corbels.Engaged colums support chancel arch. The nave
is divided into unequal parts of 5 and three bays by a plain
inserted partition.

Listing NGR: SO9926677797

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26565699

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