Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK54NW HIGHBURY ROAD, Bulwell
646-1/1/277 (North East side)
Church of St Mary the Virgin and All
Souls
GV II
Parish church. 1849-50. By HI Stevens of Derby. North chapel
1946, alterations 1978 by E Vernon Royle. Rubble stone with
ashlar dressings and concrete tile roofs. Gothic Revival
style.
PLAN: chancel, organ chamber, north chapel and vestry, nave
with aisles and porches, west tower.
EXTERIOR: plinth, buttresses, coped gables. Windows mainly
have pointed arches and hood moulds.
Chancel has a 4-light east window with intersecting tracery,
and on each side, a 2-light window. Organ chamber, to south,
has a 2-light window with Y tracery, similar to the aisle
windows. North chapel, flat roofed, has a flat-headed
mullioned window, 2 lights. Adjoining vestry has 2-light
window to north and door to west.
Nave clerestory has on each side five 3-light mullioned
windows with flat heads. Aisles, 5 bays, have 2-light windows
with Y tracery, and moulded parapets. West ends, and north
aisle east end, have similar windows. North aisle has in the
fourth bay a shallow gabled porch, 1978, replacing the window.
South aisle has in the second bay a gabled porch with moulded
pointed arched doorway and hood mould.
West tower, 4 stages, has angle buttresses up to the bell
stage, octagonal north-west stair turret, and crenellated
parapet. Pointed arched west door with hood mould, and to its
right, 2 large bronze war memorial tablets. Above the door, a
3-light window with intersecting tracery. Traceried single
lancets to north and south. Above again, on 3 sides, a slit
light and clock. Bell stage has a 2-light louvred opening on
each side.
INTERIOR: rendered. Chancel has moulded arch with responds,
and wagon roof with ribs. East end has C19 stained glass
window and elaborate alabaster reredos, Decorated style, 1900,
and traceried alabaster panelling, 1912. North side has a
stained glass window and a doorway. South side has a plain
window and a shouldered opening containing an organ case,
dated 1872. Nave has arcades with double chamfered arches and
octagonal piers, and arch braced king post roof. The 2 west
bays are separated by a full height partition, 1978, to form
meeting rooms. The upper part contains 3 glazing bar windows
with a round window above them.
Aisles have lean-to roofs. North aisle has 2 windows with
stained glass, 1990 and 1992, and stained glass east window,
1872. South aisle has to east a traceried stone screen, 3
lights, and stained glass south windows, C19 and 1928.
Fittings include traceried octagonal font and bracketed cover,
traceried stalls with poppyheads, square ended benches and
brass eagle lectern, all C19. Traceried octagonal ashlar
pulpit, 1891. Other fittings C20.
Memorials include various small tablets, early C19 to early
C20, and painted ashlar cartouche in C18 style, dated 1919-21.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 267).
Listing NGR: SK5419045039
