NHER 65667 (Building record) - Church at St Andrew's Hospital

Road bridge at St Andrew's Hospital (NHER 9693).
Previously recorded under NHER 9693.

November 1997. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Church. 1856-1859, by John Brown, county surveyor. Nave 1877, probably by THB Heslop, county surveyor. Yellow brick, with ashlar and brick dressings and hipped slate roof with a hipped octagonal ventilator. Classical Revival style. Rusticated basement and angle pilasters, string course and sill band. Octagonal body with porch and vestry to east, and organ chamber and tower to north. Rectangular nave with western vestry...To north, organ chamber with a tall round arched window to east and west. Above, square tower, three stages, the lowest stage rusticated...Nave has three bays divided by pilasters, sill band, and bracketed eaves cornice. On each side, three three-light windows. West end has pediment containing a round window, and topped with a finial and cross. Vestry at west end, single storey, has flat roof behind coped parapet. Projecting centre with large glazing bar window, flanked by single smaller windows, all with flat heads.
Interior, rendered. Main body has hipped matchboard ceiling with central octagonal boss. East side has a triple gabled wooden rereedos, 20th century, flanked by doors…Nave has ramped floor, ornamented cross-beam ceiling, and frieze with roundels. Bays are divided by panelled pilasters with cornices. West end has a central six-panel door.
Fittings: original benches with panelled ends in the main body, replica benches in the nave. Original altar rail. At the east end, two radiators, 19th-century, in elaborate cast iron foliage cases.
In the basement, former mortuary rooms, and half-tiled post-mortem room with glazed ceramic dissection table on pedestals."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 23 May 2022.