Catholic Apostolic Church and Church House
Catholic Apostolic Church and Church House, Maida Avenue W2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1238911
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Catholic Apostolic Church and Church House
- Statutory Address:
- Catholic Apostolic Church and Church House, Maida Avenue W2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1238911
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Catholic Apostolic Church and Church House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Catholic Apostolic Church and Church House, Maida Avenue W2
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:
- Catholic Apostolic Church and Church House, Maida Avenue W2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26452 82020
Details
TQ 2682 SW
31/47
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
MAIDA AVENUE, W2 (south-east side)
Catholic Apostolic Church and Church House
5.2.70
GV
I
Church and adjoining caretaker's house. 1891-93 by J.L. Pearson. Red brick with ashlar dressings and tiled roofs. Four bay aisled nave with further narrow bay and projecting centrally-placed apsidal baptistery to west. Crossing and transepts, two bay chancel and apse with ambulatory and north and south chapels, that to the south with narrow aisles and apse. Detached tower (raised to two storeys only) adjoins south-west angle of nave. Caretaker's house to north. Victorian Gothic style.
Church, west front: deep arched recess rising to nave vault level contains two four-light windows with Geometrical tracery with plate tracery roundel above. Flanked by the projecting side walls of the nave which rise to octagonal turrets with spirelets. Decorative arcading to gable end and canopied niches to flanking walls. The apsidal baptistery with lancet windows projects from the centre of the recess below a gallery. Entrances to west end of each aisle are contained in triple-arcaded porches.
Nave: bays divided by pilaster buttresses. Two-light windows with quatrefoils in plate tracery above (lancets to narrow bays) under continuous dripmould. Corbel table. To south transept end a six-light window with wheel window and cinquefoil above. Sunk quatrefoils in spandrels. Four-light window with Y-tracery and roundels to gable end.
Chancel: lancet windows under continuous dripmould, pilaster buttresses. Chapels to north and south separately roofed.
Church House: two storeys and attic, gable to street. Flanking buttresses. Mullion and transom windows with arched lights and dripmoulds. Two-light pointed window to gable.
Church interior: two storey elevation with elaborately moulded arches on clustered columns with moulded capitals. Quadripartite vaults on triple shafts which rise from floor. Deeply splayed clerestory. South chapel has slender clustered columns on waterholding bases with moulded capitals.
Listing NGR: TQ2644382028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416606
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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