Church Of The Ascension

Date:
27 Jul 2000
Location:
Church Of The Ascension, Sergehill Lane, Abbots Langley, Three Rivers, Hertfordshire, WD5 0RT
Reference:
IOE01/02579/24
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

TL 00 SE ABBOTS LANGLEY SERGEHILL LANE (Northwest side) Bedmond

3/65 Church of the 9.5.78 Ascension

II

Parish church. Built in 1880 for 80 given by W.H. Solly. Pre-fabricated in corrugated iron, walls painted cream on a rendered brick plinth.

Gothic Revival Style. W porch. 4 bay nave. SW tower and steeple. 1 bay chancel with vestry outshuts. Gabled entrance porch: pointed arched entrance, cusped finialed bargeboards. W end 2 light Y traceried window with timber hood mould, wavy finialed bargeboards. Tower has a louvred trefoil headed lancet to W, splay footed octagonal belfry with trefoil headed louvred openings. Octagonal spire with elaborate iron finial.

Nave has 4 lancet windows in chamfered timber surrounds to each side.

Chancel E window is 3 lights with intersecting tracery, wavy bargeboards. Lean-to to N with 2 light window to E and an entrance to W.

Smaller lean-to to S with an entrance to E. Interior: completely wood panelled. Simple collar truss roof. Around pointed chancel arch and on wall plates are painted mottos.

Listing NGR: TL0986803891

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1676 IOE Records taken by John Reeve; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© John Reeve. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Reeve, John

Rights Holder: Reeve, John

Keywords

Render, Brick, Iron, Victorian Parish Church, Religious Ritual And Funerary, Church, Place Of Worship