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Saint Luke's Hospital — Western Road

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Saint Luke's Hospital — Western Road
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Detached north-south oriented Gothic Revival chapel, built 1889-90, with five-bay nave elevation, single-bay chancel and projecting gable-fronted porches to east and west elevations, and having sacristy to east elevation of chancel. Pitched artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge crestings, stone cross finials to gables, cast-iron crosses to porches, limestone coping and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped artificial slate roof to sacristy. Snecked rock faced sandstone walls with dressed limestone quoins, platbands and corner buttresses. Lancet windows, triple-light to north gable, with chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds and alternating limestone and sandstone voussoirs. South gable end, slightly breakfronted, has two windows of coupled lancets set in cut limestone surrounds with hood mouldings and a small rose window in the gable set in a cut limestone surround with hood moulding. Cast-iron coloured quarry glazing throughout. Pointed arch door openings to porches with chamfered limestone surrounds, hood mouldings and chamfered trefoil-headed statue niches over, timber battened double doors with ornate cast-iron strap hinges.

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