Church of St Margaret of Antioch
Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Lime Avenue
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268406
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Lime Avenue
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268406
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Lime Avenue
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 Margaret of Antioch, Lime Avenue
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Southend-on-Sea (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leigh-on-Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 83408 86641
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement on 24 February 2025 to update the architect details
TQ88NW
840/1/10012
SOUTHEND ON SEA
LIME AVENUE
Church of St Margaret of Antioch
II
Anglican church, completed in 1931 to architectural designs by Sir Charles Nicholson and Graham Lloyd; the north aisle was added in 1938 to architectural designs by Nicholson and Thomas Johnson Rushton. Early Italian Romanesque style with basilica plan. Concrete, roughcast rendered, brick bands and dressings. Clay pantiles to nave, aisle roofs leaded. Five-bay nave, two-bay apsed chancel, south chapel, north and south aisles, small north chapel, vestries to south. The detached Campanile to south west is separately reconunended- East end, high single-light round headed window with square leaded lights to north chapel, apse with three similar windows, south chapel with Venctian window with leaded lights as before. South aisle has a range of four round-headed windows with tile arches, above projecting single storey vestries flanking a central door. Clerestorey with range of four lunette windows. West end symmetrical with a central entrance, a brick arch over double doors with statue of patron saint over. Oculus above, with tile surround. Aisles slightly recessed each with round arched window ffiazed as before and a small round headed window with square headed light. North aisle with range of four round arched windows detailed as before and a central door under round arch.
INTERIOR: Open kingpost roof of 13 bays, painted roof boarding, Tuscan nave colonnades and moulded comice. West organ gallery with later glazed screen below. Font base of black marble and elaborate wooden cover. Chancel slightly re-ordered with central altar of 1986, but circular floor in keeping with original conception. [Pevsner, Buildings of England: Essex, 2nd Edn; p.353.1]
Listing NGR: TQ8340886641
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461872
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Essex, (1965), 353
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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