The Mayor of Southampton Councillor Elizabeth Mizon was asked if she would be interviewed for a DVD being produced by the NHS Southampton City Trust which will demonstrate the various ways that the hospitals under the management of the Trust are successfully engaging with the local community. The help and preparation given to the Friends in converting the hospital chapel for community use is of course a first class example.
Image courtesy Will Temple [December 2009]
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Images by courtesy of Jane Davies, Conservation Officer Southampton City Council
Fred Woolley Memorial Window
image courtesy Will Temple
December 2009 John Avery had a fund raising table with the Cavalier Jazzmen donating their services at the Healthy Bite cafeteira at the RSH hospital.
Image courtesy Jill Ghanouni RHS Community Liaison Officer
The Mayor of Southampton Councillor Brian Parnell signing the RSH Hospital
visitors' book at the inaugral meeting of the Friends in 2009.
image courtesy Arthur Jeffery
The Mayor of Southampton Councillor Elizabeth Mizon talking to our Chair Sally Greenwood at a Christmas reception held at the NHS Southampton City HQ in Oakley Road [December 2009]
The RSH hospital and chapel from an old postcard
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courtesy backmanmal.flickr.com
[image Will Temple]
The directors assessing work to be undertaken [December 2009]
[image courtesy Alan Morton]
images copyright Amm MacGillivray July 2009
image copyright Ann MacGillivray July 2009
The altar RSH chapel image copyright Ann MacGillivray July 2008
Visitors exploring the chapel before any restoration work commenced.
image courtesy Arthur Jeffery
RSH Hospital Chapel c1907
RSH Hospital Chapel 2009
Comparing the two views, there were in 1907 six turrets on the roof and the four corner supports each have a mounted cross. On the roof is now an ornamental white ventilator but then it was merely a pipe. The crypt was showing a brick wall whereas now at both ends of the building an access and boxed in glass strongly detract from the stylish lines of the chapel. The building was listed in October 1981 and we are not permitted to change any features to an earlier appearance. If however we can prove that the modern alterations to the crypt are post 1981 then there could be a case to have the wall restored.