Roman Catholic Church of St Austin
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST AUSTIN, WOLVERHMAPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195332
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St Austin
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST AUSTIN, WOLVERHMAPTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195332
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St Austin
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST AUSTIN, WOLVERHMAPTON ROAD
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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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST AUSTIN, WOLVERHMAPTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 92298 22540
Details
STAFFORD
SJ9222NW WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD 590-1/11/102 (North West side) 17/12/71 Roman Catholic Church of St Austin
GV II
Catholic church. 1862. By Edward Welby Pugin. Brick with blue brick diapering and ashlar dressings; tile roof. PLAN: 5-bay nave and lean-to aisles with east chapels flanking short chancel; north-west turret; south-east sacristy. EXTERIOR: canted E end has gabled 2-light windows; chapels have 2-light windows to east and return; aisles have 3-light windows; clerestory has spherical triangle windows; Geometrical tracery. West facade has ashlar banding and some brick diaper and crosses, pointed entrance to centre left end, each with moulded arch and paired plank doors with strap hinges; 5-light W window with small vesica window above; turret to left is flush with facade and shows signs of re-construction, plain parapet, pointed louvred bell openings and short needle spire with metal cladding; coped gable with iron cross. INTERIOR: arch-braced roofs, part ceiled, part painted; chancel has richly coloured tiles below sill level and narrow 2-bay arcades to chapels; nave has 4-bay arcades with marble piers, simple capitals and moulded arches, west gallery with organ and arcaded balcony front. FITTINGS: High Altar has roundels between marble shafts, rich pulpit has ogee panels with relief scenes between canopied figures, similar desk has tracery panels and deep cornice; side altars have relief panels and figures of the Virgin and Child and the Sacred Heart; font has quatrefoils to sides with instruments of the Passion, C20 glazed screen beneath gallery. STAINED GLASS: C19 and C20 glass to N; E windows by Hardman; W window has C16 Flemish glass, presumably that which was installed in church of 1818, now demolished, by Lord Stafford. (Staffordshire Catholic History: Catholic Chapels in Staffordshire: 1974-: 429; Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Nairn J: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 249).
Listing NGR: SJ9229822540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384056
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Staffordshire Catholic History Catholic Chapels in Staffordshire, (1974), 429
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 249
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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