Church of Holy Cross and All Saints
CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS AND ALL SAINTS, WARLEY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297213
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Cross and All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS AND ALL SAINTS, WARLEY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297213
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1992
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Cross and All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS AND ALL SAINTS, WARLEY HILL
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 HOLY CROSS AND ALL SAINTS, WARLEY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 58970 91885
Details
BRENTWOOD
TQ59SE WARLEY HILL, Warley 723-1/8/552 Church of Holy Cross and All Saints 21/10/92 (Formerly Listed as: WARLEY HILL Roman Catholic Church of Holy Cross and All Saints)
II
Roman Catholic mission church. 1881. By FW Tasker. Extended 1886. Rock-faced Kentish ragstone with Lancaster stone dressings. Slate roofs with coped gable ends. Plan: Nave, chancel with bell-turret on SE corner and with Lady Chapel on S side, the chapel on N side of chancel now contains the organ; N and S aisles, the N aisle added in 1886; south porch. Early English style. EXTERIOR: the east end has 2 lancets and buttresses, the centre buttress with Crucifixion above with canopy and quatrefoil in gable; on left (SE) corner a circular turret with arcaded belfry and short conical spire, all in ashlar. Lower gable-ended roofs to N and S chapels, the Lady Chapel on S has double span roof. Small lancets in lean-to aisles, without clerestorey windows; the S aisle has gabled porch, the N has integral vestry with small gabled dormer and chimney-stack. Large rose window in W gable. INTERIOR: 3-bay arcades, without capitals, the double chamfers dying into piers. Arched brace nave roof supported on long corbelled colonnettes. Similar colonnettes to stone ribs of chancel vault. Romanesque arcading around chancel. Carved stone reredos and altar by Thomas Earp, the altar with carved relief of Last Supper has been moved forward. Stained glass E windows of 1986 by J Lawson of Goddard and Gibbs. Built as a mission church for the RC soldiers of Warley barracks and donated by Countess Tasker.
Listing NGR: TQ5897091885
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373566
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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