CHAPEL AT RUBERY HILL HOSPITAL

CHAPEL AT RUBERY HILL HOSPITAL, BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH

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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

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Official 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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL AT RUBERY HILL HOSPITAL, BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH

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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

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Legacy System number:: 410207
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.