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MANSFIELD
SK5361 CHESTERFIELD ROAD SOUTH
924-1/5/25 (South West side)
18/01/94 Church of St Philip Neri and
attached presbytery
GV II
Roman Catholic church and attached presbytery. Dated 1925. By
Charles A Easdon of London. Brick with ashlar dressings and
Roman tile roof. Chancel with apse and side chapels, nave with
clerestorey, aisles, north chapel and baptistry.
EXTERIOR: east end has blind apse with pilaster buttresses and
copper dome, flanked by square side chapels with plain
parapets and single round east windows. Chancel has square
corner buttresses with caps, and a round-arched window set
high on each side. East gable has a square bell turret with
cornice and blocking course, topped with a Celtic cross.
Single round-arched opening. Nave, 5 bays, has concave ramped
buttresses. Clerestorey has 5 round-arched windows on each
side.
Pedimented west gable has central round-arched niche with
keystone and imposts, containing figure. On either side, a
round-arched window with apron. Central doorway with double
flanking shafts, cornice and double doors, with semicircular
hood and relief carving in tympanum. On either side, a
round-arched window with apron.
Aisles have plain parapets, and single round windows in the
west ends. No side windows. South aisle has to east a
flat-roofed corridor linked to the presbytery, with a door to
left and 2 windows to right. North aisle has to east a
projecting chapel, with 3 flat-headed windows, flanked by
large pedimented gables, each with a round window. Segmental
curved west end has 3 flat-headed windows. The flat-headed
windows have stone surrounds.
Presbytery, to south, has hipped plain tile roof and 2 side
wall and single ridge stacks. 2 storeys; 3 bays. Projecting
central bay has rusticated brick pilasters. On each floor, a
12-pane sash flanked by single 8-pane sashes, all with
keystones. To left, 2 small windows. To right, entrance bay
with round-arched margin-glazed window and below, painted
stone doorcase with cornice. To right again, projecting hipped
bay with two 12-pane sashes, and below, a 3-light window.
Garden front has in the centre two 12-pane sashes on each
floor, with keystones. On either side, a canted 2-storey bay
window with three 12-pane sashes on each floor.
INTERIOR is plastered and painted. Chancel has moulded round
arch with square marble piers with pedestals and moulded caps.
Barrel vault with cross panel. Single moulded round arch on
each side, leading to side chapels, with a round-headed window
above it. Apse has panelled walls with paintings and
Corinthian pilasters, and mosaic panelled dome.
Side chapels have 2 bay blind arcades with wall paintings and
wooden screens with pedimented central opening.
Nave has 5-bay arcades with Ionic columns, moulded round
arches and clerestorey sill band. Panelled barrel vault with
moulded wooden ribs on corbels. West end has panelled
semicircular gallery with organ, and below it, a wooden porch
with pairs of glazed doors.
Aisles have moulded cornices and span beams on brackets. South
aisle has 12 bay arcade with moulded arches, containing 5
doors. To east, a double door to the vestry, and an arch to
the side chapel.
North aisle has to east 3 large round arches, the central one
with solid tympanum and round-headed niche with figure,
flanked by shouldered doorways, the right one with a
wrought-iron gate. Eastern arch to chapel of St Ann, with
moulded wall panels and irregular groin vault. Western arch
with wrought-iron screen to Baptistry with panelled walls and
groin vault. To west again, a 4-bay blind arcade.
FITTINGS: fluted alabaster font on 4 volutes arranged as a
cross. Marble altar with suspended canopy. Marble and
alabaster balustraded altar rails with wrought-iron gates, to
apse and side chapels. Folding panelled pulpit and lectern,
panelled choir stalls and plain benches.
Listing NGR: SK5353861536
