Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph and St Etheldreda
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH AND ST ETHELDREDA, LICHFIELD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248261
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph and St Etheldreda
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH AND ST ETHELDREDA, LICHFIELD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248261
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph and St Etheldreda
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH AND ST ETHELDREDA, LICHFIELD 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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH AND ST ETHELDREDA, LICHFIELD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Cannock Chase (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rugeley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 04615 17918
Details
The following building shall be added:
SK 0417 RUGELEY LICHFIELD STREET (east side)
649-0/2/10005 Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph and St Etheldreda
II
Roman Catholic church. 1849-50; by Charles Hansom. Sandstone ashlar. Plain tile roofs with stone coped gable-ends. PLAN: 6-bay nave with north and south aisles, chancel, Lady chapel on north side of chancel, vestry on south side of chancel, north and south porches and west tower. Decorated style. EXTERIOR: Nave has small 2-light clerestorey windows and low aisles with 2-light windows with weathered buttresses between; gabled north and south porch with moulded arch and statue niche. Taller Lady chapel on north side of chancel with larger 3-light windows. Large 5-light east window with foiled rose tracery. Large west tower with prominent diagonal buttresses, stair-turret with pinnacle, trefoil balustrade with small pinnacles and tall octagonal stone spire with lucarnes and thin flying buttresses; a weather-cock on spire. INTERIOR intact, but walls have been painted, over the original decoration; original roofs, painted chancel and Lady Chapel roofs are unaltered. 6-bay arcades with compound piers, moulded capitals and double-chamfered 2-centred arches; tall chancel arch. Original High Altar, Sedilia and Piscina; elaborate 1880 Lady Altar; 5-light east window with four lights by Hardman and centre by Wailes; a Hardman window of 1860 in the Lady Chapel and a good 1860 wrought-iron memorial screen. SOURCE: Buildings of England, page 228.
Listing NGR: SK0461517918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429822
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 228
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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