ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOHN FISHER

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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.

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ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOHN FISHER, SHIRE LANE

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TQ 09 NW CHORLEYWOOD SHIRE LANE (Southeast side) Chorleywood

5/106 R.C. Church of St. John Fisher

II

House, now house and chapel. c.1890 extended c.1905 by C.F.A. Voysey. Red brick, mostly roughcast. Stone dressings. Tiled roofs. Arts and Crafts Style addition to detached suburban house. All 2 storeys. Addition by Voysey to right: ground floor long 12 light stone mullion and transom window, arranged 1:4:1, leaded lights, tile dripmould. First floor two 3 light stone mullion windows. Brick pilaster buttresses at ends. Sprocketed eaves. Steeply hipped roof with a tall roughcast stack to right with a tile coped triangulated cap. To left earlier house has a projecting gabled bay to left, ground floor rectangular bay window, corniced architraved first floor sashes, applied timber in gable. On left return towards rear a door by Voysey with heartshaped ends to strap hinges. To rear of later block a ground floor later C20 addition, first floor 4 light stone mullioned window, an entrance and a single light. A stack to right. Stone mullioned windows inserted to rear of earlier house by Voysey, 5 and 3 lights. 1 storey hipped projection to rear right. Interior: round arches, fireplaces, doors, low picture rails and ventilation grilles by Voysey. Formerly known as Hill Cottage. (Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TQ0233096053

Selected Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)

National Grid Reference: TQ 02330 96053

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