CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR

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:: 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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.