CHURCH OF ST EDMUND (ROMAN CATHOLIC)

CHURCH OF ST EDMUND (ROMAN CATHOLIC), THE AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113304
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST EDMUND (ROMAN CATHOLIC)
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST EDMUND (ROMAN CATHOLIC), THE AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113304
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST EDMUND (ROMAN CATHOLIC)
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST EDMUND (ROMAN CATHOLIC), THE 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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST EDMUND (ROMAN CATHOLIC), THE AVENUE

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

District:: City of Southampton (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 42056 13006

Details

SOUTHAMPTON SU 41 SW THE AVENUE

CHURCH OF ST EDMUND 983/10/10028 Roman Catholic Church

II

Roman Catholic church. 1889; by J W Lunn of Great Malvern. English bond red brick with stone dressings. Double Roman clay tile roofs with stone coped gables. PLAN: Nave; 5-bay N and S aisles, transeptal lady chapel and sacristy. A tower on the south side and a transept on the north side were planned, but were not built. Decorated style. EXTERIOR: The east (liturgical west) end has a large rose window with intricate Decorated tracery and a canopied Crucifix above, and moulded pointed arch doorway below in pentice flanked by large buttresses with weathered set-offs. The N and 5 aisles have 2-light windows with reticulated tracery and clerestoryabovewith3-lightcurve-tineartracerywindows. Bellcote on S side and short gabled transept (Lady Chapel) on N side with 5-light window set in large arch. The west (liturgical east) end has small rose window in gable of chance[. INTERIOR: Plastered walls with stone arcades, chancel arch and rear-arches. 5-bay N and 5 arcades with octagonal piers, moulded capitals and double-chamfered pointed arches. Tall narrow 2-bay chancel/lady Chapel arcade. large moulded chance[ arch with corbelled shafts. Nave has 10-bay arch-braced crown-post roof with three tiers of wind-braces. Chancel has 4-bay arch-braced roof. Ornate carved stone reredos with canopied niches with spires and pinnacles; sanctuary re-ordered and altar brought forward. lady Chapel has carved stone Gothic reredos and iron and brass Communion rail. Timber lady Chapel/Chance[ screen. C19 benches. C20 organ [oft installed at east (liturgical west) end. SOURCE: Buildings of England; p 519.

Listing NGR: SU4255313582

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967)

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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.