CHAPEL OF FORMER LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101105
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1983
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF FORMER LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM, ORPHANAGE ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF FORMER LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM, ORPHANAGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Watford (District Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 11317 97194
Details
TQ 19 NW 4/22
5259
ORPHANGE ROAD
Chapel of former London Orphan Asylum
II
1871 by Henry Dawson. Polychrome brick Gothic chapel with stone dressings. Four and a half bay nave, transepts and chancel with 3-sided apse. Plain lancet windows and small roses in transept gables. Ornate west front with clasping buttresses alternately brick and stone finishing in octagonal stone pinnacles. Brick main gable wall with stone niche and finial at apex, large stone plate-traceried rose set back in Gothic arch with polychrome brick voussoirs and stone side shafts. Hood mould over and string at base of recess and at springing level. Slightly projected gabled porch with stone shoulders, coping and apex. Polychrome brick arch with side shafts. Within, chancel not visible below windows. Original stained glass survives. Vehicle entrance broken through nave wall on west side.
Listing NGR: TQ1131797194
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158204
- 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.
End of official listing
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