The Warneford Hospital Chapel Oxford, England
Listed Building Data
The Warneford Hospital Chapel has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1245465
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 15 May 1997
- Name
- THE WARNEFORD HOSPITAL CHAPEL
- Location
- THE WARNEFORD HOSPITAL CHAPEL, WARNEFORD LANE
- District
- Oxford
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SP 53708 06096
- Easting
- 453708.2670
- Northing
- 206095.8560
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SP 50 NW OXFORD WARNEFORD LANE, Headington
612/24/10045 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: SP5378206080
