Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HOLDENHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242666
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HOLDENHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242666
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HOLDENHURST 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 MARY, HOLDENHURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bournemouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 10760 92648
Details
BOURNEMOUTH
SZ1092 HOLDENHURST ROAD,
Springbourne
768-0/23/10042 (South East side)
Church of St Mary
II
Anglican church. 1926-34; by Sir Charles Nicholson. Red brick in English bond with stone window dressings. Clay plain tile roofs with brick tumbling in the gable ends. PLAN: Aligned NE-SW. Nave and chancel in one and full-length 5-bay north and south aisles; no tower, but bellcote on liturgical NW corner and porches and offices in low ranges on the 'west' end and 'south' side. The church was designed to be built in stages, to replace an existing mission church. Restrained Perpendicular style. EXTERIOR: The nave and aisles are in three almost equal parallel ranges, the nave slightly taller and the ranges staggered at the' east' end, the nave advanced slightly and the north aisle recessed more than the south aisle. The' east' end has large 4 and 6-1ight Perpendicular windows and a single-storey range in front with moulded pointed arch doorways to left and right, straight-headed lancets and flat brick buttresses between. On the 'NW' corner a brick bellcote set at an angle to and integral with the corner, with a broach at the base and a saddle-back top. The 'north' and 'south' sides have 4-centred arch 3-light Perpendicular windows, the two to the 'east' with raised cills, tall brick buttresses, on the 'north' side the 'priest's' doorway with shallow porch against a buttress. The staggered 'east' end has similar windows to that of the 'west' end, but the 'south' aisle gable is blind. South side has slim chimney stack with little buttresses and a stone cap. The 'west' end has lead rainwater heads to small brick arches in the valleys between the gables. INTERIOR: Whitewashed walls. Tall 5-bay arcades with octagonal piers and chamfered 2-centred arches, the end piers without capitals and the arches dying into them. Boarded timber roof with painted decoration on the soffits of the moulded tie-beams and with king-posts with braces. Similar painted decoration to timber reredos, pulpit and font-cover. Low panelled screen and 'north', chapel screen with carved open-work. Furnishings designed by Nicholson. Stained glass, some by N. Comper including the 'east' window [1931], the 'east' and 'north' windows of the 'north' chapel [1949]. SOURCES: Buildings of England [Hampshire], page 124.
Listing NGR: SZ1076092648
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 443472
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 124
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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