CHURCH AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244866
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:: CHURCH AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244866
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:: CHURCH AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL

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 AT FAIRFIELD HOSPITAL

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

District:: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Fairfield
National Grid Reference:: TL2041135304

Details

TL 204352 346/5/10003

STOTFIELD

Church at Fairfield Hospital

GV II

Church at mental hospital. 1878-79, by George Fowler Jones. Yellow brick, with ashlar and red brick dressings and slate roofs. Plinth, flush string courses, coped gables with crosses. Early English style. Plain pointed arched windows, mostly 2-light, with simple tracery. Chancel with vestry and organ chamber, south west tower, nave with west porch and vestries. Apsidal chancel has three windows. Lean-to vestry and organ chamber have pairs of narrow flat headed windows. Nave, 8 bays, has on each side 7 windows set in recessed panels and divided by buttresses. North west bay has a rebated pointed arched doorway with shafts, and door with fanlight. Above it, a diaper-work panel. In the south west bay, a square bell tower, 4 stages, with a similar doorway, string courses, and pyramidal roof. Second stage has single slit lights. Third stage has triple slit lights on each side, with a clock above them to south and west. Bell stage has on each side a double pointed-arched bell opening. West end has a central gabled porch with similar doorway to north and south entrances. This is flanked by small square vestries with hipped roofs and a slit light on each side. Above, in the main gable, two windows, and above again, a roundel. Interior, rendered. Chancel has roll-moulded arch on corbels, sill band and linked hood mould. Matchboarded groin vault and apse, with ribs on angel corbels. 3 stained glass windows by Moore of London, the central one c1918. To north, pointed arched opening with organ. To south, pointed arched doorway. Nave has hammerbeam roof on ashlar corbels. At the south east end, a panelled wooden internal porch. At the west end, a rebated pointed arched doorway. Similar doorways to north and south. Fittings include original wrought iron altar rail, traceried octagonal wooden pulpit, and quatrefoil font on round stem.

Listing NGR: TL2041135304

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Legacy System number:: 468933
Legacy System:: LBS

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