Church of St Saviour
CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR, ARKWRIGHT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246319
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Saviour
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR, ARKWRIGHT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246319
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Saviour
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR, ARKWRIGHT STREET
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, ARKWRIGHT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 57741 38634
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5738NE ARKWRIGHT STREET
646-1/25/13 (North East side)
Church of St Saviour
GV II
Parish church. 1863-64. By RC Sutton of Nottingham. Spire
rebuilt, 1955. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and slate
roofs. Gothic Revival Style.
PLAN: chancel, vestry, nave with aisles, south-west tower and
spire.
EXTERIOR: plinth, string course, buttresses, coped gables.
Pointed arched windows, mainly 2-lights, with geometrical
tracery. Chancel, single bay, has a 5-light east window, and a
single window each side. Vestry, to north-east, has a single
window.
Nave clerestory has on each side 10 round windows in spherical
triangles. West end has 2 windows, with a central round window
above. Aisles have 4 windows and single windows in west ends.
North aisle has to west a pointed arched doorway under a coped
gable. South-west tower, 3 stages, has a slated broach spire
with a tier of lucarnes. To west, a pointed arched recess
under a gable, containing a pair of doors with a central
shaft, and above them, a traceried round window. Bell stage
has quoins. On each side, 2 segment-arched recesses with
single pointed arched bell openings.
INTERIOR: chancel has moulded arch with blue brick band and
hood mould, and responds. Arch braced roof on corbels. East
end has traceried panelling and reredos, 1913, and stained
glass window, 1904. North side has arch with organ case, south
side has doorway. Nave has 5 bay arcades with round piers and
chamfered arches with polychrome brick bands and hood moulds.
Hammer beam roof with shaft corbels. Blind arcade at west end,
with commandment boards. Aisles have lean-to roofs, pointed
arches at east end, doors to west, and patterned stained glass
windows, 1896. South-east window c1864.
Fittings include original stalls, desks, benches, communion
rail, round ashlar pulpit and octagonal font with spire cover.
Brass eagle lectern, 1880. Memorials include 3-panel alabaster
war memorial, 1921.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 247; St Saviours centenary booklet: Rev. RG Hoye:
Nottingham: 1964-).
Listing NGR: SK5774138634
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.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454764
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 247
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27444
Other
Hoye, RG, St Saviours Centenary Booklet, 1964,
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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