Description:South west view of the Roman Catholic Chapel, attached to the Hospital of St. John in Alton. The Hospital was begun in 1840 by A.W.N. Pugin around three sides of a quadrangle, facing Alton Castle. The left range (including the Chapel) and half the middle range were completed by 1843. The rest of the Hospital was by either Pugin or Thomas Fradgley of Uttoxeter and was completed by the early 1850s.