Catholic Church and Presbytery Attached
CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY ATTACHED, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295687
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Catholic Church and Presbytery Attached
- Statutory Address:
- CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY ATTACHED, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295687
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Catholic Church and Presbytery Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY ATTACHED, STATION 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:
- CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY ATTACHED, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buntingford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3633829239
Details
TL 3629
7/35
BUNTINGFORD
STATION ROAD (west side)
Catholic Church and Presbytery attached
GV
II
The Benson Memorial Catholic Church dedicated to St Richard of
Chichester, and presbytery attached. 1915 by Arthur Young, later
S extension to presbytery. Uncoursed knapped flint with
limestone dressings. Steep red tiled roofs. Traditional church
in Decorated style with nave, lower chancel, NE Lady Chapel, W
tower with spire, N porch, and 2-storeys presbytery linked to S
side facing E, with single-storey S extension. Crenellated tower
with copper spike and vane, 4-centred arched 2-light bell
openings with band at sill level, diagonal W buttresses, and tall
statue of saint with spade on buttress at NE corner of tower.
Dec stone tracery windows and diagonal buttresses elsewhere.
Interior has waggon roof with moulded battens, carved bosses, and
cresting on wallplate. Octagonal font or fluted shaft. Low
gabled link at SE to presbytery of similar materials, with
asymmetrical front. Ground floor has a long band of trefoil
headed stone windows under a hoodmould, 4 lights to left and 5
lights to right of arched doorway with quartrefoil carved
spandrels. 3 2-light and 3-light chamfered stone upper windows
with sills joined by a band. (Pevsner (1977) 117).
Listing NGR: TL3633829239
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159814
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 117
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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