Church of St Saviour's on the Cliff Including Church Hall
CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR'S ON THE CLIFF INCLUDING CHURCH HALL, QUEEN'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212831
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Saviour's on the Cliff Including Church Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR'S ON THE CLIFF INCLUDING CHURCH HALL, QUEEN'S ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212831
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Saviour's on the Cliff Including Church Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR'S ON THE CLIFF INCLUDING CHURCH HALL, QUEEN'S 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:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR'S ON THE CLIFF INCLUDING CHURCH HALL, QUEEN'S ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shanklin
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 58454 81323
Details
SHANKLIN
SZ5881
QUEEN'S ROAD
1352-0/8/206 Church of St Saviour's on the Cliff
incl Church Hall
GV II
Church and church hall. Earliest part of 1869 by Thomas
Hellyer of Ryde in Early English style comprized nave,
chancel, vestry and organ chamber. In 1871 the south aisle and
porch were added and in 1876 the north aisle and church hall
were added. The tower and spire were completed in 1887 and the
Galilee porch and baptistery-added in 1905 by W O Milne. Built
of Isle of Wight stone rubble, except for bapistry, Galilee
porch and tower, which are of ashlar, with tiled roof. 4 bay
nave with lower 2 bay chancel, north and south aisles, south
porch, semi-circular baptistery to south-west linked by
Galilee porch to north-west tower with spire. Nave has
clerestorey windows of alternate quatrefoil and cinquefoil
lights flanked by lancets. South aisle has buttresses and 3
triple lancets. West gable with sexfoil window above and 2
double trefoliated lancets below with small quatrefoils above.
North aisle has 3 pointed arched windows with trefoils under
hood moulding and 2 lancets to end bay. Chancel has 2 double
trefoliated windows with large quatrefoils above. Gable with
cross-shaped saddlestone. Double plinth. South porch gabled
with pointed arched entry with dwarf columns and wooden arch
braced roof. Baptistery apsidal-ended with buttresses and
lancet windows. Galilee porch has central porch with
round-headed arch dying into buttresses flanked by triple
lancet windows. North-west tower of 4 stages changes from
square to octagonal in final stage and has stepped buttresses,
semi-circular stair turret to soutn-west, tall lancets to bell
chamber and elaborate stone spire with bands of carving
surmounted by iron weathervane and with . Elaborate gargoyle
waterspouts. Porch with pointed arch with dogtooth ornament
and triple attached columns. 2nd stage has 2 plain lancets and
3rd stage has arched recess with 3 lancets.
Interior: baptistery has an elaborate stone font with
octagonal bowl supported on 4 granite columns with wooden font
cover. nave has arches on circular columns, boarded
arch-braced roof resting on stone corbels and elaborate carved
oak pulpit dating from 1903. War memorial altar by Macdonald
Grill 1921. Chancel has oak screen and stalls of 1902 and
boarded arch braced roof Sanctuary has marble and gold
reredos of 1876 depicting the Ascension and marble and mosaic
walls dating from 1914. Triple sedilia.
Church hall attached to north of 1876. Built of Isle of Wight
stone rubble with tiled roof. L-shaped. West elevation has
hipped 4-light dormer and tiled and wooden verandah. South
elevation has 2 scallop-tiled gables with moulded wooden
bargeboards containing triplemullioned and transomed
casements. Tiled verandah supported on 5 stone piers. Gable
end has 4-light mullioned and transomed window under flat
relieving arch.
(Buildings of England:Lloyd D:Hampshire and the Isle of
Wight:769) .
Listing NGR: SZ5845481323
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 25 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 310240
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 769
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 25 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/21851
War Memorials Online, accessed 25 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/197337
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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