CHAPEL OF FORMER LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHAPEL OF FORMER LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM
List entry Number: 1101105
Location
CHAPEL OF FORMER LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM, ORPHANAGE ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Hertfordshire
District: Watford
District Type: District Authority
Parish:
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 07-Jan-1983
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 158204
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History
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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
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National Grid Reference: TQ 11317 97194
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