Church of the Transfiguration
CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION, BEDFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321574
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Transfiguration
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION, BEDFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321574
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Transfiguration
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION, BEDFORD 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 THE TRANSFIGURATION, BEDFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kempston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 03462 47948
Details
TL 04NW KEMPSTON URBAN BEDFORD ROAD
2/90 Church of the Transfiguration -
- II
Parish church. 1938-40. By J. Harold Gibbons FRIBA. Largely paid for by legacy from Anne Charles-Williamson. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Hipped clay tile roofs. Oriented roughly N-S (following orientations are therefore liturgical). Nave, S aisle, N aisle, Chancel, E chapel on higher level, S porch adjoining projecting gable and bellcote. Style is mixture of simplified Gothic and Arts and Crafts movement. Nave has clerestory to S only, with windows of 3 cinquefoiled lights under square heads. Full height pointed arch gives onto projecting gable and porch. Single storey round-headed arcades, 3- bays to E, 2 bays to W, open onto flat-roofed S aisle. 3-bay N arcade of 1½ storey height has pointed arches. Both aisles have square-headed windows, S ones mostly 4-lights, N ones mostly 5-lights. Gallery to W end of nave continues across N aisle as first floor block with curving wall, on brick piers, within angle formed by nave and N aisle. Chancel is continuation of nave although lit by clerestory window to N as well as S. E wall has 2 flat- arched openings onto passage which in turn gives onto vestry. First floor chapel, overlooking nave, has 5-light E window with semi-circular head and ogival and pointed-arched tracery. Chapel is reached by stairs in small block with hipped roof at E end of S aisle. S porch has round-headed arch with hoodmould with carved heads to stops. Gable has large lancet window with cusping. Bellcote rises out of porch and has corner stone carved with cross and inscription: "For God's Glory. 31.7.1938". Interior: barrel vaulted roof to nave and chancel, half barrel vault to N aisle.
Listing NGR: TL0346247948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36727
- 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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