Chapel at Rubery Hill Hospital
CHAPEL AT RUBERY HILL HOSPITAL, BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276164
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Rubery Hill Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AT RUBERY HILL HOSPITAL, BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2001-08-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/04351/08
- Rights:
- © Mr Geoff Dowling. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276164
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Rubery Hill Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AT RUBERY HILL HOSPITAL, BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH
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 RUBERY HILL HOSPITAL, BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH
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:
- SO 99266 77797
Details
BIRMINGHAM BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH (OFF) SO 17 ME Chapel at Rubery Hill Hospital 15/10040 II Hospital chapel.1882,by Martin and Chamberlain of Birmingham for the Borough of Birmingham's Lunatic Asylums Committee of Visitors,with C20 alterations.Red brick with ashlar sandstone and terracotta dressings beneath a plain tiled roof.Aisless plan comprising nave(now subdivided for Anglican and Catholic worship)and apsidal chapel,in the Early English style,with gabled bellcote at the junction of nave and chancel.Nave of 8 bays with plain entrance doorways enclosed by corridor of adjacent hospital.Each bay with copled lancets rising froma moulded brick string,the windows having steeply-sloping ashlar cills.Moulded brick surronds within chamfered brick openings.A moulded string above window heads supports a plain eaves.Nave bays delineated bystepped brick buttresses with moulded margins and ashlar set-offs.4 roof gablets to each slope.Doorway within each sidewall 4 bays from entry end.Bellcote projects from broken gable which supports flanking spired turrets.Apse with coupled lancets to each of 5 bays between stepped buttresses, with a continuous hood mould carried around upper set-offs to butresses.Interior with hammer-beam roof trusses,arch-braced and carried on ashlar wall corbels.Engaged colums support chancel arch. The nave is divided into unequal parts of 5 and three bays by a plain inserted partition.
Listing NGR: SO9926677797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410207
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 11-Jun-2026 at 19:45:43.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.