Church of St Francis
CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS, FLEETWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078202
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Francis
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS, FLEETWOOD ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-07-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/02271/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078202
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Francis
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS, FLEETWOOD ROAD
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:
- CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS, FLEETWOOD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Brent (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 22493 85323
Details
TQ 28 NW DOLLIS HILL FLEETWOOD ROAD
935-/2/10010 CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS
II
Anglican Church. Brick with tile dressings; concrete; tile roofs. 1932-33 and dedicated to St. Francis on the seventh centenary of his death. To the designs of J. Harold Gibbons, Essay in a Romanesque manner with an emphasis on simple planar forms. Nave of four round-arched bays with shallow barrel vaulted roof, boarded, the boards of alternating widths and continuous on long axis; light blue colour original with mouldings in dark green. Concrete walls, painted in places. North and south aisles with lean-to roofs; pairs of transverse interior buttresses spanning aisles between second and third bays; lit by paired, flat-arched windows. West round above organ gallery. Round arch to chancel on crossing axis, the altar, on platform of polished granite steps, has been brought forward from parapet to Lady Chapel; chancel in position of crossing, shallow transept; chancel has single bay, groin vaulted, the vault painted blue with stars. Silver sanctuary lamp hanging from centre of vault. Lower segmental arch to east of altar area, marking off Lady Chapel; this chapel with flat painted roof, a round-arched east window of diminutive proportions to east wall; the painting of the crucifixion on over-arch area, immediately east of altar, is of the same period as church. Upper area of chancel lit by north and south windows creating very dramatic and mysterious light as viewed from west end. Floor of wood block. Organ loft stair in southwest corner associated with stone baptismal font, a signature feature of Gibbons. Sacristy to northeast corner connected to choir vestry at southeast corner by flat-ceiled passage running behind Lady Chapel. The exterior is notable for its extreme simplicity and the almost blunt way in which the masses mirror the interior spaces with hardly any concession to picturesque compositional values. Of special note are the tile patterns filling in the ends of the pantiles to eaves; various designs appear the work of workmen on site. Stone low relief panel over west entrance in an early Christian manner. Virtually all the original details survive intact. The chief beauty of the structure arises from the stately sequence of simplified forms and masses and on the inside, in particular, the repetition of round-arched forms. The directness is intended to refer to auster and mendicant life and work of St. Francis of Assisi.
Listing NGR: TQ2249385323
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355308
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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