GARRISON CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE

GARRISON CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE, QUEEN'S AVENUE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1092606
Date first listed:: 20-Aug-1979
List Entry Name:: GARRISON CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE
Statutory Address:: GARRISON CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE, QUEEN'S AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1092606
Date first listed:: 20-Aug-1979
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: GARRISON CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE
Statutory Address 1:: GARRISON CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE, QUEEN'S AVENUE

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.

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GARRISON CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE, QUEEN'S AVENUE

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Rushmoor (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 86636 51922

Details

ALDERSHOT SU 85 SE QUEEN'S AVENUE (South East side) 991-0/2/55 Garrison Church of St Michael and St George 20.8.79 II

Garrison church. 1892, by Pitt and Michie, vestry added mid C20. Brick with stone dressings and tiled roof and shingled spire. Early English Gothic Revival style. PLAN: cruciform plan with aisled nave with N and S porches to W end, transepts, central W tower and chancel. EXTERIOR: Coped gables, sides articulated by flat-headed sunken panels with double bottom steps and corbelled heads. E gable has three tall lancets with ashlar cill and impost bands, and an oculus, with 2-bay sides each with a lancet, and an exterior stack on the N side above a long flat-roofed vestry, with parapeted sides containing flat-headed windows in arcades of round-headed recesses. N transept gable has 3 lower lancets separated by smaller matching blind panels, paired lancets above, and a short right-hand round stair tower with conical ashlar roof and porch with 2-centre arched doorway in the angle to the right with the aisle. 6-bay parapeted aisle with single lancets to each bay, and 3 lancets to each clerestory bay, with a gabled W porch with steps up to a 2-centre arched doorway. W end has the central square tower set forward on a stepped plinth, divided into 4 stages by ashlar bands, a recessed 2-centre arched doorway with deep splayed sides, flat-headed doors either side of a square trumeau, and tympanum with relief of a kneeling figure of St George with sword; paired lancets to the stage above, the third blind, and belfry with paired lancets with louvres in a recessed panel. Shingle broach spire has shallow lucarnes with paired louvred openings, and finial. The S side of the tower has a half octagonal 2-stage stair tower with ashlar top; parapeted W ends to aisles. S side as the N, the transept has shallow clasping buttresses, a 7-bay lower arcade of blind lancets with 3 alternate glazed lights, and 3 upper lancets separated by lower blind lancets. INTERIOR: nave has moulded octagonal piers which rise without capitals into 2-centre arches, timber barrel vault, clerestory windows have rere arches on round columns; semi-circular arch to 3-bay chancel, with painted spandrels, and rere arches on banded columns to the E window. HISTORY: originally St George's Catholic Garrison Church. (Childerhouse T: Military Aldershot, the first fifty years: London: 1990-).

Listing NGR: SU8596151712

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Legacy System number:: 137882
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Childerhouse, T , Military Aldershot the first fifty years, (1990)

Legal

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