Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church

Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, Eton Court, Eton, Windsor

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031551
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church
Statutory Address:: Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, Eton Court, Eton, Windsor

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Date:: 1999-10-23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031551
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church
Statutory Address 1:: Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, Eton Court, Eton, Windsor

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, Eton Court, Eton, Windsor

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Eton
National Grid Reference:: SU 96584 77432

Details

SU 9677 SE 851/1/10006

ETON ETON COURT Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church

II

Roman Catholic church. 1914; by Alfred Lord Braye. Brick with rendered sides and Portland stone west front. Slate roof with gabled ends and circular roof lights. Italian Baroque style.

PLAN: Rectangular on plan with entrance at west end, sanctuary at east end and chapels on the north and south sides lit from roof lights.

EXTERIOR: Fine Portland stone west front, of three bays with Ionic giant pilasters, paired at ends, with entablature and balustrade on top and surmounted by aedicule with volutes and open pediment; central doorway with moulded eared architrave, panelled double doors and oval oculus above; similar architraves to flanking windows with bracketed cills. Blind east end and north and south walls, but with circular lights in roof. On the ridge of roof a wooden cupola.

INTERIOR: Sanctuary and north and south chapels have round arches and marble Ionic pilasters; the chapels each have pedimented reredos and are lit by circular lights from above; the altar rails are marble balustrades. The interior fittings are said to have come from Frogmore Chapel, Windsor and from Braye's chapel at Stanford Hall, Leics., his family home; and the ormolu work on the altars is also said to have been designed by Braye.

Listing NGR: SU9658477432

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Legacy System number:: 468990
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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 319

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.