EMMANUEL CHURCH

EMMANUEL CHURCH, WOODCHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1235441
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: EMMANUEL CHURCH
Statutory Address:: EMMANUEL CHURCH, WOODCHURCH ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-02
Reference:: IOE01/00841/22
Rights:: © Mr Paul Alistair Bloomer. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1235441
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: EMMANUEL CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: EMMANUEL CHURCH, WOODCHURCH 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:: EMMANUEL CHURCH, WOODCHURCH ROAD

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

County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Gedling (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Albans
National Grid Reference:: SK 56630 46423

Details

BESTWOOD ST. ALBANS WOODCHURCH ROAD SK 54 NE (west side) 4/16 Emmanuel Church G.V. II* Parish church. 1868. Designed by S. S. Teulon and paid for by the 10th Duke of St. Albans. Rockfaced and plain ashlar with gabled, hipped and conical slate roofs. C13 French Gothic style. Ashlar dressings. Chamfered plinth and moulded sill band. Windows are chamfered lancets with polychrome heads. West porch, nave and apsidal chancel under continuous roof, pulpit turret, south porch. West end has central porch with coped gable with cross and slab roof. Moulded pointed opening with round shafts. Interior has stone seat and 3 bay arcade with central memorial panel to Sybil,Duchess of St. Albans, c.1873. Flanked by single lancets. Vaulted roof. Beyond, single lancets. Above, central round window, and above it, a trefoil. Above again, west gable has shouldered gabled bell turret with cross. Nave, 4 bays, has on each side 2 paired lancets flanked by single lancets. South side has, to east, 2 buttresses. Chancel apse has 5 lancets and finial cross. Vestry west gable has pointed door. To east, double shouldered lancet. To west, pulpit turret with 3 lancets and conical roof. South porch has 2 flanking buttresses and chamfered doorway. Coped gable with dove in roundel. On each side, 2 lancets. Interior has common rafter roof and chamfered doorway. Aisleless nave has painted dado and window heads. Scissor braced matchboarded roof. West end has central recess -with 2 memorial windows. Above, marble portrait plaque and memorial window, all to Sybil, Duchess of St. Albans, 1873. The plaque is by H.R.H. Princess Louise. Chancel has arch on foliate corbels. Arched organ opening to left. Blind arcaded dado, 1898, and moulded sill band. Ribbed domed apse. Stencilled decoration throughout. 5 stained glass memorial windows to designs by Sybil, Duchess of St. Albans, 1870, executed by Morris & Co., 1911. Fittings include octaqonal ashlar font, pierced matching pulpit and cross frame benches. Pierced stalls and desks. Memorial lectern, 1885. Memorials include brass and tile, Cl9. Bordered bronze War Memorial plaque, 1918. C20 brass and wooden panel.

Listing NGR: SK5663046423

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 425239
Legacy System:: LBS

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War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/26969

Legal

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