Church of St Philip

Church of St Philip, Hawthorn Crescent, Cosham, PO6 2TL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333221
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: Church of St Philip
Statutory Address:: Church of St Philip, Hawthorn Crescent, Cosham, PO6 2TL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333221
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: Church of St Philip
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Philip, Hawthorn Crescent, Cosham, PO6 2TL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of St Philip, Hawthorn Crescent, Cosham, PO6 2TL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Portsmouth (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 66596 04795

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/11/2020

SU60SE 774-1/4/136 PORTSMOUTH Cosham HAWTHORN CRESCENT (north side) Church of St Philip

(Formerly listed under HAWTHORNE CRESCENT) 25/09/72

II Church. 1936-38. By Sir Ninian Comper. Red brick in Flemish bond, stone dressings. Welsh slated roofs. Aligned north-west/south-east, liturgical east used in this description.

PLAN: four-bay aisled nave, one-bay chancel, west porch, choir vestry and organ loft.

EXTERIOR: east face: chancel with large six-light stone curvilinear traceried window. Brick band, small diamond window and stone coped facing gable. To right is a projecting flat roofed vestry with four six-pane casements and projecting front of church hall (of no special interest).

North face: aisle with diagonal offset brick buttresses and buttress at centre each terminating with stone pointed pinnacle. To left and right of central buttress are two three-light stone Y traceried windows with similar window to right return and chancel. Below window to right of central buttress is a recessed eight-panelled door with stone splayed ogee arch and jambs.

West face: at centre is a two-leaf twelve-panelled door with similar ogee arched stone surround, set under pointed arch with hoodmould, stone infill to spandrels. To left is a corner splayed organ loft access staircase with stone slabbed roof and in front a low one-storey choir vestry with on left an eight-panelled two-leaf door and on right a four-light stone mullioned window set under flat arch, brick parapet with moulded stone cornice. Nave has facing stone coped gable with kneelers. Stone bellcote with round-arched opening and flanking Ionic pilasters, cornice and facing stone pediment. North face: three windows similar to south with on left an eight-panelled two-leaf door leading to church hall.

INTERIOR: four-bay nave with wide aisles. Each north and south arcade has four pointed plaster arches with Composite Corinthian columns supporting plaster mock quadripartite vaulting; Composite pilasters to walls and corners of aisles. The east window to chancel has stained glass depicting a figure of Christ with figures of angels in the smaller lights. The ciborium stands across the chancel with gilded Corinthian columns supporting a superstructure of round arches with a quadripartite vault surmounted by cornice. Blue and gilt decoration with painted angels and apostles. Eagle perched above columns at each corner hold the chains of suspended censers. At west end is an octagonal font with gilded and painted "tempietto" colonnaded cover. The organ loft projects into the west bay of the nave supported on Doric columns, and the organ case is richly decorated with painted holy figures. Ceiling beneath organ loft panelled with painted shields in gilt surrounds.

Listing NGR: SU6499305587

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Legacy System number:: 474737
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
A Brief History and Description of St Philips Cosham 1937-1987, (1987)
Balfour, A, Portsmouth, (1970), 80
Lloyd, D W , Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 133
Pevsner, N, Lloyd, D, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1973), 464,465

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.