The Warneford Hospital Chapel
THE WARNEFORD HOSPITAL CHAPEL, WARNEFORD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1245465
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1997
- Statutory Address:
- THE WARNEFORD HOSPITAL CHAPEL, WARNEFORD LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1245465
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1997
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WARNEFORD HOSPITAL CHAPEL, WARNEFORD LANE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE WARNEFORD HOSPITAL CHAPEL, WARNEFORD LANE
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:
- SP5370806095
Details
SP 50 NW
612/23/10045
OXFORD
WARNEFORD LANE, Headington
The Warneford Hospital
GV
II
Asylum chapel. 1841-51; by H.J. Underwood. Limestone ashlar. Welsh slate roof with moulded coping to gable ends. PLAN: Nave and small chancel with vestry on the liturgical north side. Entrance at west end under a gallery at this end of the nave; `priests` door at east end of south side of the nave. Victorian Gothic Early English style. EXTERIOR: 4-bay nave, the north and south sides divided by pilasters and with tall lancets with hoodmoulds, the south side with 2-light window over `priests` door at east end. The corners of the nave and chancel have set-back buttresses with truncated pinnacles above. The west end of the nave has double-chamfered pointed arch doorway, two small roundels over containing trefoil lights, stringcourse and small gabled bellcote corbelled out above and above that a small trefoil in the gable which is surmounted by a cross. The crosses on the other gables have been removed. The short chancel has east window with three lancet lights under one hoodmould and vestry on north side with small lancets. INTERIOR: Gallery at west end of nave with 3-bay arcade with compound piers, moulded 2-centred arches and arcaded balcony. Tie-beam roof trusses with tracery between the posts. Dado with arched panels and brattishing. Benches with cusped panel ends and wrought-iron lecterns. Double-chamfered chancel arch and vestry arch on north side of chancel with responds with stiff-leaf capitals. Victorian stained glass windows. SOURCE: Parry-Jones, B., The Warneford Hospital, Oxford, 1826-1976.
Listing NGR: SP5370806095
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 468688
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Parry Jones, B, The Warneford Hospital Oxford 1826-1976, ()
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