Church of St Wilfrid

Church of St Wilfrid, Church Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1354934
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: Church of St Wilfrid
Statutory Address:: Church of St Wilfrid, Church Road

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Date:: 2003-09-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1354934
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: Church of St Wilfrid
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Wilfrid, Church Road

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.

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of St Wilfrid, Church Road

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

County:: West Sussex
District:: Mid Sussex (District Authority)
Parish:: Haywards Heath
National Grid Reference:: TQ 33098 23915

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 March 2021 to correct name and reformat the text to current standards TQ 32 SW 4/111

HAYWARDS HEATH CHURCH ROAD Church of St Wilfrid

10.9.51 II* Church. 1863-65 by G F Bodley in Decorated style. Built of Sussex and Ardingly sandstones with tiled roof having decorative ridge tiles. Central tower, five bay nave with clerestory and lean to aisles with buttresses. South chapel in transept and short chancel of one bay. Tower of three stages with south east turret with stepped buttresses and octagonal turret above. Hipped tiled roof with iron finial. Bell-stage has double pointed window. Nave has quatrefoil and cinquefoil openings to clerestory. Deep plinth to aisles whose windows have double original openings and trefoliated heads. South west gabled porch with cross-shaped saddlestone and arched doorcase with hood moulding and panelled door.

Interior has roof of crown-post type: Tall west window with intersecting tracery. North walls rest on alternate octagonal and circular piers. Central tower rests on boldly pointed transverse arches. East window contains expressionist glass by A Archer 1962-63. Low stone screen, with alternate rose and fleur-de-lys motifs, separates nave from choir under tower. South aisle contains some William Morris stained glass of Saints c1870. South chapel has unusual stained glass depicting soldiers at the front and being hospitalized during the First World War. Wooden lectern on stone base.

Graded II* for rarity of Bodley Churches.

Listing NGR: TQ3309823915

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Legacy System number:: 303022
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 529 530

Legal

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