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Listed building outline: Torbay Hospital Chapel 390724

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Torbay Hospital Chapel 390724

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.553098 50.482053,-3.553116 50.482048,-3.553097...
• entry-date: 1994-05-02
• listed-building: 1280033
• name: Torbay Hospital Chapel
• notes: Hospital chapel. Opened 1930, rainwater heads dated 1928. To the designs of Charles Holden. Freestone ashlar with exceptionally fine joints, original scantle slate roof. Late C17 style, of a puritan character. PLAN: Attached to the neo-Georgian 1928 main blocks of the hospital with a lobby bay. The chapel consists of 4-bay nave and chancel with a projecting south-east porch and south-west organ chamber. East end has rounded corners. Classical style. EXTERIOR: Severe and nicely-detailed. Stepped plinth. Pedimented gable to west end. East end has recessed rounded corners and a plain parapet. Flat-roofed porch has a moulded doorway with a keyblock and rounded recessed corners; similar corners to organ chamber. Sides have shallow banding and centres are slightly recessed. Round-headed windows to nave glazed with leaded panes of thick opaque glass. Low lobby at west end has a segmental-headed doorway on the south side and an original 2-leaf segmental-headed 2-leaf door in a late C17 style with 2 big fielded panels to each leaf. INTERIOR: Coved roof of exposed timbers to the nave; full set of original oak fittings including altar, reredos; pulpit with carved heads; benches; panelled dado. Round-headed east window filled with stained glass, the style rather old-fashioned for the date, depicting biblical scenes of healing. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.855). Listing NGR: SX8991865850
• reference: 390724
• start-date: 1994-05-02