Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188549
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, VICTORIA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188549
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, VICTORIA 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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, VICTORIA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Bexley (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 51246 77889
Details
TQ 57 NW VICTORIA ROAD
959/3/4 Christ Church
17.12.1980 II*
Parish church. 1874 by J P St Aubyn. Yellow stock brick with polychrome red brick decoration and stone dressings; red tiled roof. Mainly lancet windows, paired to nave. Aisled 5-bay nave, with entrances in narthex; almost detached north-west tower of 1914 with stone broached spire; chancel with buttressed polygonal apse; south chapel with polygonal apse; north vestry. INTERIOR: Nave arcade has round piers, with stiff-leaf capitals. Nave has three tier hammerbeam roof with curved braces supported on stone corbels. Chancel has five fine lancet windows by Hardman of 1875 depicting scenes from the Gospels, reredos of painted triptych of the Adoration of the Magi in a C15 Italian style by A O Hemming of 1904, stencilled decoration, triple sedilia and polychrome tiles. Nave has original carved wooden lectern, pews, stone and - granite font, wall tablet on west wall to Thomas Ruck, organist between 1881-1918 with mosaicwork cherubs and eight painted panels depicting scenes from the early history of the Church in England from the martyrdom of St Alban to the martyrdom of St Edmund by Ward and Hughes of 1906-9.
[Pevsner BOE London South p277.
Roger Homan "Victorian Churches of Kent". 1984. P54.]
Listing NGR: TQ5124677889
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 198721
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Homans, R, Victorian Churches of Kent, (1984), 54
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 2: South, (1983), 277
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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