Description

BRISTOL

ST5776 COTE LANE, Stoke Bishop 901-1/28/2131 (South side) 24/02/93 St Monica's Chapel, St Monica's Home of Rest

GV II

Chapel. 1925. By Sir George Oatley. For HH Wills. Squared, coursed Pennant rubble, limestone ashlar and tiled roof. Chancel with flanking S Lady Chapel and N organ bay, and nave. Perpendicular Gothic Revival style. E end has buttresses to a tall central gable with 2-centred arched 5-light window with ogee heads, transom, and panel tracery, and flanking attached pinnacles, shallower flanking gables have 4-centre arched 3-light windows with hoods and foliate stops; sill mould, cornice with carved beast heads and good parapet of openwork quatrefoils and finial, over undercroft which has paired windows to the middle and 3-light windows to the side gables with mullions, beneath a drip course. The flanking gables repeated on N side of 6 bays, with projecting 2-bay organ room, and blind W bay; an octagonal ashlar bell tower in the re-entrant with the chapel with square belfry, angle buttresses to pinnacles, 3-light windows and open Tudor-arched windows to the belfry, a crested parapet, and weathered roof to a finial. Matching S elevation without the tower. W elevation attached to rear of Rest Home has a wide 4-centre window. INTERIOR: E end blind tracery panels round the window, and piscina and sedilia with attached crocketed pinnacles; S Lady Chapel, N organ bay with a good organ by 'Father' Willis. Timber reredos has open 2-centre arches, fan vaulted above to linenfold panelling, and a raised crucifix with flanking figures. Nave windows have blind tracery panels, and stone bench along the sides; the W end has 4 blind arches flanking the central Tudor-arched doorway, beneath fan vaults to a moulded band and 2-centred arched panels to the gallery parapet. The roof has arch-braced tie beams on angel corbels. An exceptionally well-detailed though anachronistic design, using several motifs, such as the blind panelling and gallery, from the Wills Tower (qv), designed 1914. See St Monica's Rest Home (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 417).

Listing NGR: ST5715476288

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