Church of St Stephen
Church of St Stephen, Bobbers Mill Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246456
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Stephen, Bobbers Mill Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246456
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Stephen, Bobbers Mill 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 Stephen, Bobbers Mill Road
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 55489 41587
Details
SK54SE
646-1/4/37
NOTTINGHAM
BOBBERS MILL ROAD (north west side)
Church of St Stephen
(Formerly Listed as: BOBBERS MILL ROAD, St Stephen's Church)
21/01/87
II
Church.1897. By W.D Caröe, architect to the Diocese of Southwell. Red brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. Perpendicular Revival style. Plinth, buttresses, coped gables.
PLAN: chancel, choir vestry, lantern topped with spire at junction of nave and chancel, nave with aisles and western bellcote, south porch.
EXTERIOR: chancel, two bays, has ashlar parapet and coped gable. Blank east end, and on each side, two panel tracery windows, five-lights, with moulded pointed arches. Those to the west are truncated above the aisle roofs. Flat roofed choir vestry, to south east, has a four-light panel tracery window to south. Clerestory, five bays, has alternating two- and three-light panel tracery windows with flat heads. West end has a gabled projecting porch moulded pointed arched doorway with foundation stone at impost level, and ornate wooden double doors. Above, a large six-light panel tracery window set in a round-arched recess, divided by a canted brick stair turret leading to the square ashlar bellcote.
North aisle, obscured by adjoining new building, has four four-light panel tracery windows, and an off centre porch converted to a corridor. South aisle has four similar windows, and to east another window partly covered by a priest's door with moulded segment-arched opening. Both aisles have coped gables, and at the west ends, three-light panel tracery windows set in segment-arched recesses. South porch has coped gable with moulded pointed arched double doors, and above them, an empty niche.
INTERIOR: has continuous arch braced common rafter roof with wall shafts. Chancel has a segment-arched recess at the east end, with a crenellated band above. Segment-arched door to north, piscina, aumbry, sedilia and door to south. Nave has four bay arcades with moulded pointed arches dying into octagonal piers and responds. West end has double doors. Aisles have stained glass west windows, c1897. South aisle has two stained glass windows dated 1936 and 1943.
Fittings include original oak stalls. Traceried octagonal ashlar pulpit and marble font with spire cover, resited from a demolished church c1890.
Listing NGR: SK5548941587
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454790
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 256
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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