Chapel at Hollymoor Hospital
CHAPEL AT HOLLYMOOR HOSPITAL, TESSALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234339
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Hollymoor Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AT HOLLYMOOR HOSPITAL, TESSALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234339
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Hollymoor Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AT HOLLYMOOR HOSPITAL, TESSALL LANE
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.
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 AT HOLLYMOOR HOSPITAL, TESSALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 00245 78487
Details
BIRMINGHAM TESSALL LANE (OFF) SP 07 NW 16/10042 Chapel at Hollymoor Hospital II Hospital Chapel.1905 by Martin and Martin of Birmingham for the Borough of Birmingham Lunatic Asylums Committee of Visitors. Red brick with terracotta dressings,coped gables and moulded kneelers.Banded slate roof gablets and a fleche to the upper end of the nave with louvred and tiled cheeks.Crested clay ridges.8 bay nave with transeptal vestry to south and taller transept to north.Lean-to continuous porch to west end with double doorways.Apsidal chancel to east end. Nave bays delineated by shallow stepped buttresses with set-offs.Single tall lancet to each bay with mouded margin to surround,terra cotta string course linking cills,and with continuous hood mould to window heads.Moulded eaves band.Lean to porch with gabled doorways to ends.Stepped moulded doorway arches below hood moulds with scroll stops.Flat shouldered door heads below 3 lancet arched infill of door arch heads.Wall between doorways incorporates 2 sets of 3 lancets.Vestry porch to south transept with coupled lancets and projecting flat-roofed porch entry with clasping buttress to corner.Moulded stepped surround to doorway,and roll moulded parapet coping which extends to join coped gable to vestry Faceted chancel apse, buttressed,and with a wide pointed-arched 2 light window with trefoiled head to each bay.Moulded hood above with corbel stops.Smooth red brick bands aligned with buttress set-offs.Tall gabled north transept with tall coupled lancets.Stepped clasping buttresses to corners.Intricate metal finials to fleche and gablets, the latter subdivided into 3 lights.Interior subdivided to provide for Anglican and Catholic worship.Steeply-pitched arch-braced hammer beam roof with triple purlins and rafters expressed internally.Original bench pews and other fittings.
Listing NGR: SP0024578487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410210
- 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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