Chapel of St Luke, Radcliffe Infirmary
CHAPEL OF ST LUKE, RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY, WOODSTOCK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047067
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Luke, Radcliffe Infirmary
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST LUKE, RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY, WOODSTOCK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047067
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Luke, Radcliffe Infirmary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST LUKE, RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY, WOODSTOCK ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST LUKE, RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY, WOODSTOCK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 51023 07121
Details
612/3/868 WOODSTOCK ROAD
28-JUN-72 (West side)
CHAPEL OF ST LUKE, RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY
GV II
WOODSTOCK ROAD
1.
1485
(West Side)
Chapel of St Luke,
Radcliffe Infirmary
SP 5107 SW 3/868
II GV
2.
Chapel. 1865. By A.W. Blomfield. Coursed rubble, stone tracery and red tile steeply pitched roof with bell turret. Early English Gothic chapel to the Radcliffe Infirmary to which it is connected by a pitched-roof corridor. Chapel forms one side of the courtyard in front of the Infirmary.
PLAN: Rectangular plan of 5 bays plus chancel. Transept porch to south wall under bellcote. Connected to main block by 4-bay corridor.
INTERIOR: Bays marked by wood trusses with cusped underside. Each bay has window with pair of narrow cusped lancets surmounted by pointed trefoils and quatrefoils with carved hood stops. East end window of three stepped lancets framed by tall colonnettes with small capitals supporting thin roll mouldings and foliate roundels in the spandrels; glass depicts nine miracles of healing and the Resurrection possibly designed by Holiday. Ventilation roundel to east gable. Cusped-head plaque to south wall commemorates Thomas Combe, d.1872 and the consecration of the chapel on 7 June 1865.
EXTERIOR: South elevation facing courtyard has buttresses, lancets and sominated by entrance portal to west end. Portal has gabled surround and segmental-headed doorway with pointed tympanum carved with Christ as Good Shepherd flanked by kneeling angels. Capitals carved with stiff-leaf foliage and stiff-lead roundel in the apex of the gable. Bellcote to east end of south wall. Connected to main block by 4-bay corridor with pitched stone slate roof.
HISTORY: Infirmary chapel was housed in the main block of the Radcliffe Infirmary above the Board Room until this new Chapel was built.
The Radcliffe Infirmary Buildings form a group.
Listing NGR: SP5102207120
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245942
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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