CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1205303
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1205303
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD

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 ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD

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

District:: The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28622 04816

Details

HOVE

TQ2804NE CHURCH ROAD 579-1/17/36 (North side) 24/03/50 Church of St Andrew

GV II*

Parish church. Late Norman nave and aisles with west tower, C13 chancel, ruinous by the C16, tower collapsed 1801 bringing down with it the end bay of nave, church rebuilt encasing the surviving aisles 1834-6, west gallery added 1839, NE vestry 1841, restored 1880. Architect George Basevi, builders Butler and Son of Paddington, restoration by J.T.Chappell, builder. Norman style with Early English chancel and vestry. Coursed pebbles, coped verges, slate roof, large stone slabs to porch roof, use of cement in restoration work. Plan: chancel, NE vestry, 5-bay aisled nave, 3-stage west tower with stair turret, south porch. The exterior features of the church are all C19. Interior rendered, panelled dado to aisles. C19 tie beam chancel roof, boarded and panelled; nave with original tie-beam and crown post roof with curved struts in all but western bay; shallow pitch aisle roofs with tie beams. Fat, round Norman columns with foliate capitals and pointed arches to arcade. C19 chancel arch. Gallery at west end, tower arch C19. Chancel wall covered with mosaics, 1880. Elegant brass lectern, wooden pulpit with brass handrail in Gothic style 1880. Vault numbers on the paving slabs in nave. A number of memorials of historical interest including one to members of the Basevi family: tablet to the painter Copley Fielding, died 1856, with a poem; Greek Revival style wall tablet to Elizabeth Yard died 1836 with a roundel depicting an angel taking her up to heaven; wall tablet with medallion portrait of Lt Sandeman, died 1852, surrounded by mourning figures. This was the original parish church of Hove. In 1531 the parish was amalgamated with the larger and more important one of Preston; they were not separated until 1879 when St Andrews again became the parish church for 13 years, until All Saints (qv) replaced it. (Dale A: Brighton Churches: 1989-).

Listing NGR: TQ2862204816

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Legacy System number:: 365514
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Dale, A , Brighton Churches, (1989)

Legal

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