Latitude: 52.3982 / 52°23'53"N
Longitude: -2.0122 / 2°0'43"W
OS Eastings: 399266
OS Northings: 277797
OS Grid: SO992777
Mapcode National: GBR 2F7.N2F
Mapcode Global: VH9Z7.2ZLF
Plus Code: 9C4V9XXQ+74
Entry Name: Chapel at Rubery Hill Hospital
Listing Date: 4 November 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1276164
English Heritage Legacy ID: 410207
ID on this website: 101276164
Location: Rubery, Birmingham, West Midlands, B45
County: Birmingham
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birmingham
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Rubery
Church of England Diocese: Birmingham
Tagged with: Chapel
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
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