CHAPEL OF ST FRANCIS' HOSPITAL

CHAPEL OF ST FRANCIS' HOSPITAL, COLWELL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192410
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST FRANCIS' HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL OF ST FRANCIS' HOSPITAL, COLWELL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192410
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST FRANCIS' HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL OF ST FRANCIS' HOSPITAL, COLWELL ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL OF ST FRANCIS' HOSPITAL, COLWELL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: West Sussex
District:: Mid Sussex (District Authority)
Parish:: Haywards Heath
National Grid Reference:: TQ 33646 22882

Details

TQ 32 SW HAYWARDS HEATH COLWELL ROAD 4/114 Chapel of St Francis' 11.10.85 Hospital GV II Chapel of former lunatic asylum, now hospital. 1859 by H E Kendall junior in a vigorous Lombardo-Venetian style. Yellow brick with red brick decoration some stone dressings and slate roof. Wide 3 bay nave with aisles, short sanctuary and slender north eastern campanile. Plinth, banding, deep pseudo-entablature with small pedimented kneelers to gables. Windows to the 3 bays of the aisles have 2 lights and quatrefoils to the heads; radiating brickwork giving an extrados more acute than the intrados. Trefoil-headed doorways. Campanile has similar decoration and windows, a heavy cornice and a pyramidal roof. Inside, the arcade is unmoulded above the capital, but has paired columns with foliated capitals and half-column responds. Shallow-pitched roof with cusped queen post construction and cusped arched braces springing from corbels. Apse at west end, barrel-vaulted sanctuary at east end. An original and successful design which complements the more severe main block of the hospital (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ3364622882

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 303025
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.