Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church
Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, Eton Court, Eton, Windsor
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Overview
- 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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- 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
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468990
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 319
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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