Description

HERTFORD

TL3014 NORTH ROAD, Goldings
817-1/5/363 (West side)
Chapel 30m south-west of Goldings

GV II

Chapel, now used as sports hall. 1923, architect Walter
Godfrey of Wratten and Godfrey. Red brick, English bond with
blue diaper patterns on end elevations, limestone base and
dressings, yellow sandstone windows, slated roof behind brick
parapet with stone copings, and parapeted gables at ends,
lower ends with Dutch profile, and octagonal turrets. Mixed
free Gothic and Jacobean styles, as on the main house. Side
elevations divided by buttresses into 6 bays, each with
recessed 3 light 4 central arched windows with traceried
cusped trefoil heads. Projecting porches with hipped and
gabled roofs, stone mullioned windows, and semicircular arched
doors.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the architect Walter Godfrey (1881-1961) was
articled to James Williams, successor to George Devey, who had
designed the new Goldings mansion in 1870. In partnership with
E Livingstone Wratten he carried on Devey's practice after
William's death in 1905. Goldings was sold by Reginald Abel
Smith, son of the builder of Goldings to Dr Barnados Homes in
1921, who opened it as the William Baker Technical School in
1922. The chapel was built to enable staff and pupils to
worship without the walk into Hertford. The foundation stone
was laid by Mrs Burnett Smith, Deputy Mayoress of Hertford on
28 June 1923. The property was sold to Herts County Council in
1969.
(Hertfordshire Countryside: Campbell D: Goldings: a curious
Hertfordshire Mansion: 34-5, 38; Gray AS: Edwardian
Architecture: London: 1985-: 196).

Listing NGR: TL3094214175

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559093

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