Church of St Stephen
CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, DALE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270861
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, DALE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270861
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, DALE 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:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, DALE 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 58444 39646
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK53NE DALE STREET, Sneinton
646-1/7/167 (South side)
12/07/72 Church of St Stephen
GV II
Parish church. Tower and part of south transept 1837-39 by
Rickman & Hussey. Remainder 1909-12, by CG Hare of Bodley &
Hare. Coursed square stone with ashlar dressings and concrete
tile roofs. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: cruciform plan with chancel and vestry, nave, aisles,
transepts and crossing tower.
EXTERIOR: plinth, buttresses, plain parapets, coped gables.
Pointed arched windows, mostly 2 lights, with simple tracery.
Chancel, 3 bays, has blank east end with central buttress.
Vestry, to south, has a flat-headed window, 3 lights, and east
door. Similar north vestry has 2 smaller windows.
Nave, 4 bays, has 3 pairs of slit lights to the clerestory.
West end has a large 4-light window. North aisle has 4
windows, and door in east bay. South aisle has 3 windows. The
windows have linked hood moulds. Both aisles have at the west
end a pointed arched double door with hood mould and a 2-light
mullioned window above. Transepts have 2 windows in the gable,
flanking a buttress. To south-west, a single bay projection
with one window. Square tower, 2 stages, has shallow clasping
buttresses. Lower stage has a roundel each side, with clock
faces to north and west. Bell stage has pointed arched double
openings flanked by narrower blanks.
INTERIOR: chancel ashlar, remainder rendered. Chancel has
low-pitched panelled ceiling with bosses. Door on north side.
Crossing has single bay vault with moulded ribs. Pointed
arched openings, with traceried wooden screen and organ case
to south. Nave has arcades, 4 bays, with moulded piers and
arches without capitals. Wooden barrel vault with moulded
ribs. Plain west window. Aisles have exposed ashlar and above,
concrete transverse arches. Pointed arched and doors at west
ends. North aisle has two stained glass windows, late C19.
South aisle has stained glass window, 1917. North transept (St
George's Chapel) has cross beam ceiling and panelling, 1931.
South transept has a rendered vault, and stained glass window,
1938. To east, a double archway to the Lady Chapel, with
chamfered pier. Lady Chapel has cross beam ceiling, panelled
wainscotting, and stained glass windows late C19 and 1944.
Fittings mainly by CG Hare include elaborate wooden reredos in
German C15 style, panelled reredos with niche and figure in
north chapel, 3-tower organ case, and octagonal font with
spire cover. Return stalls, late C15, with misericords,
removed from St Mary's church, Nottingham, 1848. Brass eagle
lectern, 1883.
Memorials include triptych war memorial by Hare, 1927.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 250; Sneinton Parish Church History: Truman N:
Gloucester: 1946-).
Listing NGR: SK5844439646
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:
- 456511
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Truman, N, Sneinton Parish Church History, (1946)
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 250
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/61370
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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