Chapel at North Staffordshire Hospital
CHAPEL AT NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOSPITAL, NEWCASTLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386589
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at North Staffordshire Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AT NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOSPITAL, NEWCASTLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386589
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at North Staffordshire Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AT NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOSPITAL, NEWCASTLE ROAD
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 NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOSPITAL, NEWCASTLE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ8563445212
Details
SJ84NE
613/4/10042
NEWCASTLE ROAD
Chapel at North Staffordshire Hospital
GV
II
Former Workhouse chapel, now used as hospital chapel. 1866, with mid and late C20 alterations. By Charles Lynam of Stoke on Trent. Red brick, with ashlar and blue brick dressings. Perpendicular style, complementing the contemporary School block, also by Lynam. Plinth, string courses, buttresses, moulded eaves. Single range, with apsidal end, stair turret to NW, and west porch. Plain tile roof with canted east end with gabled ventilators and finial. At the west end, a square wooden bell turret with pyramidal slate roof and finial. Windows have stone cross-mullions and cusped 4-centred arched heads with hood moulds.
Apse has regular fenestration, with blue brick diaper work below the windows. Four-centred arched mullioned opening to basement below NE window. Main body,S bays, has 5 windows to north and 4 to south. In the west bay, on each side, a gabled through-eaves dormer for the gallery window. North side has a tall coped stack rising from the east buttress. South side has in the east bay a square lean-to porch with shouldered door to basement, and a single window. At the SW corner, a crenellated octagonal stair turret. Coped west gable has a 3-light window and above, a small light under a hood mould. Crenellated square west porch has a 4-centred arched opening covering 2 shouldered doorways, the left doorway blocked. Right doorway has original board door. This layout reflects the segregation of the sexes which was common in churches and workhouses in this period.
INTERIOR: rendered, with moulded sill band and arch-braced hammer beam roof on corbels. The details are similar to the contemporary school block, qv. North east window has stained glass, 1920, the remainder leaded glazing. At the west end, a wooden gallery with blind tracery, carried on wooden posts. Mid C20 glazed screens and doors below the gallery, forming small rooms. Stone winder stair with iron balustrade in the stair turret.
FITTINGS: All late C20, as chapel remains in use for worship. MEMORIALS: Wall tablet, 1983.
HISTORY: Provision of a detached chapel for Christian worship was a significant step in C19 social policy. This is an early example of such a workhouse chapel.
Listing NGR: SJ8563445212
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473985
- 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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