Church of St Patrick and Wall Fronting Road
CHURCH OF ST PATRICK AND WALL FRONTING ROAD, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280980
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Patrick and Wall Fronting Road
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PATRICK AND WALL FRONTING ROAD, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280980
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Patrick and Wall Fronting Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PATRICK AND WALL FRONTING ROAD, CAMBRIDGE 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 PATRICK AND WALL FRONTING ROAD, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29864 04559
Details
HOVE
TQ2904NE CAMBRIDGE ROAD 579-1/19/27 (West side) Church of St Patrick and wall fronting road
GV II
Church. 1858, minor additions 1870s. Architect Edward Kendall junior. East window and NE window of nave designed by William Butterfield. Early English style. Kentish rag stone, stone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges, shallow pyramid slate roof to stump of tower. Plan: abutting buildings to north and south, only the east elevation is visible. The latter is the liturgical south front and the following orientations are liturgical. Cruciform plan, chancel with 2-bay south chapel abutting base of SE tower, 3-bay north chapel, 6-bay aisled nave with clerestory, SW porch with hallway or narthex. Only the south front of the church is visible, gabled porch, 2-stage stair turret with ashlar tourelle, gabled clerestory windows projecting through the nave roof, gabled tops to aisle buttresses, large south window in gable end of south chapel, buttressed stump of 2-stage tower with pyramid roof. Interior; rendered, chancel stencilled and painted by Clayton and Bell, 1890-1. Ceiled hammer beam roof to chancel with carved wooden angels, similar open roof to nave without angels. Much stained glass. Henry Willis organ installed 1856 in the north chapel, resited on the north wall of the tower overlooking the chancel in 1906. Brass lectern by William Butterfield 1873. Reredos by Somers Clark 1887. Pulpit of stone and marble by Sir Gilbert Scott. Alabaster font with tall gilded wooden canopy and pulley system installed in 1910. Fourteen paintings of the Stations of the Cross, of a much higher standard than those usually found; oil on canvass, designed by Louis Ginnett and executed after his death in 1946 by Charles Knight, both local artists. Seating removed and chairs arranged in a circle in the nave. The crypt, accessible from the narthex, is used as a shelter for the homeless. In the late C19 the church was famous throughout Brighton and Hove for its music, having a surpliced choir of over 80 men and boys. Critics referred to it as "Paddy's Music Hall". A spacious interior, effectively lit, with a good collection of late Victorian fittings. (Dale A: Brighton Churches: 1989-).
Listing NGR: TQ2986404559
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365505
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dale, A, Brighton Churches, (1989)
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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