Description

YORK

SE6052NW BOOTHAM
1112-1/8/99 (North East side)
24/06/83 Former Chapel at Bootham Park
Hospital
(Formerly Listed as:
BOOTHAM
Chapel at Bootham Park Hospital)

GV II

Church, now offices. 1865 by Rawlins Gould; conversion c1988.
Coursed squared sandstone with limestone dressings. Roof
slated in bands of alternating colour. Ridge tiles have iron
cresting.
STYLE: Gothic Revival.
PLAN: comprises a 4-bay nave with continuous chancel, short
north and south transepts, and an apsidal east end. An
octagonal turret projects from the south-west angle.
EXTERIOR: the west wall has a window of 3 trefoiled lights
with 4 quatrefoils under a pointed head. The west doorway has
double angle shafts with carved foliage, an outer pointed arch
and an inner trefoiled arch. The doors are late C20. The gable
is coped and has a cross finial. The upper stages of the
turret are of ashlar and have sunken quatrefoils below an open
bell stage with pointed arches separated by shafts with
foliated caps. The stone spirelet has a weather vane finial.
The nave windows have 2 trefoiled lights and a quatrefoil
under pointed heads and have angle shafts with foliated caps.
The south window of the south transept is similar, and its
east window has a single light. The transept gable is coped
with a cross finial. The north transept is similar, except
that it has no north window and has a chimney breast which
projects slightly and terminates with an ashlar cap. Below its
west window there is an inserted doorway. The 5 windows at the
east end are each of one trefoiled light with a trefoil under
a pointed head.
INTERIOR: east window lights separated by columns with foliate
capitals set with masks and volutes and moulded bases with bar
stops; continuous moulded sill has corbel stops at each end.
Windows have continuous hoodmould springing from carved bosses
and angel corbels bearing the symbols of the Communion. At
west end, tower door is boarded with scrolled hinges in
2-centred arch. Hammerbeam roof of arch-braced trusses springs
from angel corbels and have floral bosses attached.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: York and the
East Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 154).

Listing NGR: SE6016352706

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550515

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